Developing Number Concepts

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Developing Number Concepts

Format: 3 days

Target Audience: Classroom teachers, math coaches, math coordinators, teacher leaders

Available Grade Ranges: TK-2+

This course focuses K-2 teachers on ways to help children develop understanding and competence with counting, number relationships, addition, subtraction, and place value. Participants learn how to engage children in meaningful activities that provide appropriate practice and ensure that children have the foundation they need for future success. Participants learn how to create a positive learning environment in their classrooms along with practical methods for providing activities and materials that meet the range of needs in their classrooms.

 

Number Talks (TK-2)

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Number Talks (TK-2)

Format: 3 days

Target Audience: Classroom teachers, math coaches, math coordinators, teacher leaders

Available Grade Ranges: TK-2

During these three-day courses, teachers learn to help students acquire competence in computation using visual models and number relationships to build number sense and to develop numerically powerful strategies that make sense to students. Students work with numbers using strategies that are simple, yet meaningful and powerful. Teachers see these methods modeled as they observe children solving problems during Number Talks. Course time is also devoted to helping teachers strengthen their own understanding of mathematics.

 

Teaching for Understanding (TK-2+)

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Teaching for Understanding (TK-2+)

Format: 4 days

Target Audience: Classroom teachers, math coaches, math coordinators, teacher leaders

Available Grade Ranges: TK-2+

These four-day courses focus on how to actively engage students in mathematics in ways that take them beyond procedures to deep understanding of basic math concepts. Attention is given to creating a learning environment that allows teachers to identify the instructional needs of individual children and to meet the range of needs in their classrooms. Course time is also devoted to helping teachers develop their own understanding and knowledge of the key mathematical concepts they teach.

 

Assessing Math Concepts Grade Level Course

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Assessing Math Concepts Grade Level Course

Format: 3 days each

Target Audience: Classroom teachers, math coaches, math coordinators, teacher leaders

Available Grade Ranges: TK, K, 1, 2

Despite the adopted district curriculum or assessments used, children do not all learn at the same pace. As a result, teachers need to determine what their students still need to learn in order to provide optimal and appropriate experiences for them. During these three-day courses, participants will learn to use grade-level appropriate assessments from the Assessing Math Concepts series to identify the instructional needs of their students. They will also learn to use the information gained from the assessments to focus their instruction and maximize student learning using teaching strategies from the Developing Number Concepts series by Kathy Richardson.

 

Assessing Math Concepts (AMC) Institute

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Assessing Math Concepts (AMC) Institute

Format: 5 days

Target Audience: Classroom teachers, math coaches, math coordinators, teacher leaders

Available Grade Ranges: K-3+

The Math Perspectives Assessing Math Concepts (AMC) Institute is designed for teachers, math coaches, math coordinators, teacher-leaders, professional developers, and other educators who support professional learning of kindergarten through second grade teachers of mathematics. AMC is an in-depth study of how children learn number concepts. Participants spend the week immersed in looking at children’s thinking and learning to identify students’ instructional needs.