Presenter: Beatrice Luchin This 5-day academy is designed to provide participants with instructional and assessment strategies that target struggling students in the content area of mathematics. The academy will focus on the strategic use of graphic organizers (both teacher-directed and student-directed arrangements) and assessment strategies that can be used to complement existing programs and curriculum […]
Mathematics
Mathematics Literacy: Strategies for reading, vocabulary and concept development
EVERY test is a reading test. Learn effective literacy strategies for mathematics that will support the TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards that will support STAAR and EOC. Reading strategies that are specifically designed for attacking math application problems will be shared. Students not only need to read words, but tables, graphs, charts and a variety […]
Assessment Strategies for Mathematics (Two-Day)
This session is designed to provide teachers with specific assessment strategies to support lesson planning that is aligned to the rigor of the TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards and the EOC. The uses of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies will be targeted in this session. These strategies include: use of graphic organizers before, during […]
Assessment Strategies for Mathematics (One-Day)
This session is designed to provide teachers with specific assessment strategies to support lesson planning that is aligned to the rigor of the TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards and the EOC. The uses of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies will be targeted in this session. These strategies include: use of graphic organizers before, during […]
Successful STAAR Strategies for Measurement, Data, and Geometry and Spatial Reasoning
Students must learn mathematics with understanding, actively building new knowledge from experiences and prior knowledge. Participants will evaluate the reasonableness of solutions to application problems focusing on Measurement, Geometry and Spatial Reasoning, and data. They will explore estimation and accuracy, and formulas in perimeter and area.
Using Effective Questioning Strategies to promote Student Engagement and Increase Achievement in the Mathematics Classroom
Today’s assessments – EOC, STAAR, SAT, PSAT, AP and district benchmarks – require that teachers have the ability to create and pose questions to students in order to engage them and elicit deeper-level thinking about the subject under discussion Skillful us of the art of questioning is one of the basic skills of good teaching. […]