Math Learning Progressions (K-5) COURSE 1: Strategies and Order for Additive & Multiplicative Reasoning

PD: Gen Ed IP | This program is completed

100 Brush Hill Rd Williamstown, VT 05679 United States

TBD

K-5 Math teachers, math coaches, math interventionists, special educators

7/8/2019-10/8/2019

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$1,060.00

This course will focus on strategies and order for additive and multiplicative reasoning. The instructors will demonstrate how the use of routines and clear mathematical language is central to student learning. Participants will practice developing tools and strategies to best reach all elementary students, and will understand how patterns and techniques learned in Elementary Grades Math Lab can be used to support students as they work to meet learning outcomes.

Course participants will:
Describe why conceptual and procedural understandings are important in the classroom.
Understand and integrate the mathematical progressions for K-5 math.
Identify student performance gaps for instructional intervention.
Develop a portfolio of mathematical questions to use for furthering student understanding and thinking.
Research best practices, structures, and expectations that create a culture of learning and meet the needs of every student in a math classroom. Write a synthesis paper showing these new understandings.
Design lessons or a unit to implement in their classrooms.
Observe and provide helpful feedback to a colleague’s math lesson, furthering their own learning and practice.
Share their successes and challenges.

  • Participants can choose to only attend the workshop days (and not receive graduate credit). Please be sure to register under the WORKSHOP option if you choose to participate this way.
Gingras, Kathy

Kathy has been a teacher at the Williamstown Elementary School for over 20 years. She has taught almost every grade from K-5. She now has settled into solely teaching math to grades 3, 4 and 5. Kathy received her BS in Elementary Education and Psychology from Castleton State University (1994) and her Masters of Education from University of Southern New Hampshire (2009). She has worked with Mahesh Sharma to help develop her school district’s mathematics curriculum as well as the mathematics intervention program. She continues to work with other math colleagues on creating proficiency-based graduation requirements and scoring scales in the area of mathematics.

LaCroix, Angela

Angela has been a teacher at the Washington Village School for over 15 years. She began her career teaching Kindergarten and then a multi-age k/1 classroom before moving entirely into teaching mathematics. For the past 9 years she has only taught math classes in grades k-6 and math intervention for students in grades k-7. She received her BS in Early Childhood Education from the University of Vermont (2001) and her M.Ed. in Early Childhood Special Needs from the University of New Hampshire (2003). She has worked with Mahesh Sharma to help develop her school district’s mathematics curriculum as well as our mathematics intervention program. She continues to work with other math colleagues on creating proficiency-based graduation requirements and scoring scales in the area of mathematics.