Virtual Workshops to Support the Modules

Session Descriptions

Delivering Virtual Fluency: Any meaningful fluency activity falls into one of three categories – Longitudinal, Review, or Anticipatory. Each plays a role in current, and future lessons. This interactive session will examine the tools, planning, and mindset needed to make fluency blocks qualitatively rich during a time of distance learning.

Making Problem Solving Meaningful: Regardless of an elementary school’s math curriculum, there is often an inverse relationship between students’ age and their enthusiasm towards word problems. Precipitous drops from one year to the next are common. Upswings are rare. This trend is often the product of word problem complexes that have been unnecessarily created. This session will examine five different methods to differentiate and infuse dynamism into daily problem solving during a time of distance learning.

Math Without Procedures: Learning elementary mathematics is like climbing a ladder.  To reach a high point, one needs to pass through a series of rungs, never stretching too far too quickly.

Each level of elementary math is coordinated with those that come before and after it.  When teachers sequence their instruction through ladders of simple to complex questions, students draw connections between what they have learned in previous grades and what they're learning in the classroom.

Precision teaching uses brevity to maximize instructional time, while keeping students engaged through frequent discussion and informal assessments.  Those who practice this pedagogical technique deliver math lessons through sequences of questions rather than explanatory lectures.  Students, therefore, are led to discover mathematical truths instead of passively receiving information from their teacher.

The session will begin with a demonstration lesson, in which participants role-play as students.  While debriefing the lesson, attendees will learn how classroom seating and a low teacher/student word ratio can be powerful methods for holding a class’ engagement and raising student achievement.  The day will conclude with practicing precision teaching.

Bar Modeling/Tape Diagramming: The workshop will address the following problem-solving topics:

• Addition & Subtraction

• Multiplication & Division

• Fractional topics

• Ratios

• Percent

Pricing & Payment

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