The teacher's guide to flexible interviewing in the classroom : learning what children know about math

Preface. 1.What Is Flexible Interviewing and Why Should You Use It? Some Problems with Standard Tests. Interviewing Jennifer. The Essence of the Flexible Interview. Experimenting with Flexible Interviewing in the Classroom. 2.Preparing Students for the Thinking-Oriented Classroom. Introducing the Vocabulary of Thinking. Learning to Plan and to Talk about What One Is Going to Do. Learning to Record One's Thinking. Learning to Talk about What One Has Done. Reflecting on the Experience of Learning. What Comes Next? 3.Interviewing Individual Students. Structured Individual Interview. A Semi-structured Individual Interview. The Flexible Interview. Spontaneous Questioning. Questioning about a Piece of Work. What Comes Next? 4.Interviewing Groups of Students in a Classroom Setting. Interviewing Clusters of Students. Interviewing During Whole-Class Instruction. What Comes Next? 5.Peer Interviewing. Introducing Interviewing in the Classroom. Using Role Reversal to Teach Interviewing. Brainstorming Interview Questions. The Peer Interview. Preparing Students to Discuss Peer Interviews. Thinking about Relationships among Peers' Questions. Learning to Write and Talk about Someone Else's Thinking. Evaluating Task Performance. What Comes Next? 6.Guidelines for Flexible Interviewing. State of Mind. Getting Started. Motivating the Child. Examining What the Child Knows. What is the Child Really Capable Of? Determining What the Child Can Learn. Epilogue. 7.A Sampler of Questions. The Counting Numbers. Place Value. Addition and Subtraction. Addition, Subtraction, and Place Value. Multiplication. Multiplication and Place Value. Division. Prime and Composite Numbers. Fractions. Ratio and Percent. Decimals. Geometry. What Comes Next? 8.What Teachers Say about Using Flexible Interviewing in the Classroom. Assessment Practices. Teaching Practice, Views of Learning, and Views on What the Teaching of Mathematics is All About. Teacher Beliefs about Students' Knowledge. Conclusion. Refer3ences. Index.