Pathways Instructor Supports
Each Pathways course curriculum includes an array of supporting materials to help instructors maximize their impact on students’ learning.
Instructor Guides
Detailed instructor notes are provided for each lesson investigation. These guides include descriptions of the intended learning goals, explanations for how those learning goals connect to other lessons and units in the course, detailed solutions to each exercise, lesson planning advice, commentary on common student errors and misconceptions, and (where applicable) connections to course standards.
Since the Pathways approach, derived from research-based learning goals, sometimes differs from approaches in many other curricula, these instructor guides are invaluable tools for both new and experienced teachers alike. Many instructors report that they learn more during their first semester teaching with Pathways materials than their students due to our focus on coherence and connections across lessons and units.
Dynamic Interactive Applets
Research indicates that many students do not conceptualize variables as representing the value of quantities when those values can change, and that students must conceptualize quantities and relationships for themselves if their mathematical models are to be meaningful to them.
Therefore, we provide a variety of dynamic interactive applets (including guides with discussion questions for each applet) that instructors can use to help students visualize and explore mathematical relationships. These dynamic applets support students seeing variation in mathematical contexts and help them visualize the quantities and relationships critical to generating meaningful models.
Online Lessons and Homework
Pathways student workbooks provide instructors with ample content for in-class investigation lessons. If students miss class or begin to fall behind, however, it can be difficult for instructors to recreate these experiences to ensure that students learn what they need. Pathways online lessons and homework can fill in the gaps for these students, provide extra practice for all students, and even facilitate flipped classroom instructional models.
Pathways online resources are built on the same philosophy and research as our in-class materials. Student activity drives the lessons and students are held accountable for more than just being able to mimic demonstrated algorithms.