This
professional development focuses on a research-based, student-focused model of
instruction. Participants will learn ways to increase students' efficiency in a
manner that is consistent with their current levels of understanding. They will
learn to recognize which student-generated strategies lay a foundation for work
with more complex numbers or number systems and learn how to encourage these
strategies. In addition, participants will be introduced to formal mathematical
notation that students can use to represent their strategies. Participants will
also see how to engage students during and after problem-solving in a manner
that helps move students to more advanced mathematical understanding for computation and number
facts. The remaining 3 hours will be
given through work done in Google Classroom.
Research based on Children’s
Mathematics: Cognitively Guided
Instruction, 2nd Edition by Thomas P. Carpenter, Elizabeth Fennema, Megan
L. Frank, Linda Levi, and Susan Empson.