In today’s podcast, we are going to talk about the Cognitively Guided Instruction Model or CGI. This model was discussed and unpacked in a 1996 research paper by Carpenter, Fennema, and Franke. The authors’ main purpose in this paper was to use the CGI model to help teachers interpret, transform, and reframe their informal or spontaneous knowledge about their students’ mathematical thinking. Simply, children come to school with some real, present mathematical knowledge and teachers may n...