Description: This course provides an opportunity for classroom teachers of students in Grade 3 to learn strategies and acquire tools to advance students' mathematical reasoning. Aligned to research-based teaching practices and KAS, topics will include addition, subtraction and place value; the use of instructional routines including number talks; and the use of manipulatives, visual models and number lines. Participants will receive books, activities and instructional materials including a classroom number line. Participants will be expected to attend all 3 days of the course.
NOTE: Based on current health/safety recommendations, all sessions of this professional learning event (PLE) will meet virtually and not in person. Because meeting online for 6 hours per day would not be favorable or even feasible for course participants, each day of this 3-day PLE has been broken down into two half-day sessions.
Cost: $300 per participant Duration: 3 Days (6 half day virtual sessions.)
SCHEDULE: Days 1&2: (4 half-day virtual sessions)
Monday - Thursday, July 13 - 16, 2020
9 am - Noon CENTRAL TIME (which is 10 am - 1 pm EASTERN TIME) Day 3: (2 half-day virtual sessions)
Tuesday - Wednesday, September 22 - 23, 2020
Noon - 3 pm CENTRAL TIME (which is 1 pm - 4 pm EASTERN TIME)
*Registration cutoff date = June 12, 2020
* All materials will be shipped directly to the participant's home. Please ensure that a home mailing address is entered when completing a registration.
*Once materials are ordered and shipped, the registration fee is non-refundable.
