Teaching Strategies for Success in a Mathematics Classroom

Workshop Overview

This workshop will focus on current best practices and research in effective teaching strategies. Participants will learn together to deepen understanding of learning and assessment with TI technology as a tool. We will discuss approaches for making thinking visible, incorporating questioning strategies such as anticipating, pacing, monitoring and sequencing.

Participants will:

• Explore tasks that allow students to engage in teaching strategies that support the Eight Mathematical Teaching Practices as outlined by NCTM’s Principles to Actions.
• Investigate different teaching strategies and TI technology tools to better incorporate the Mathematical Teaching Practices in their classrooms.

Day 1 Participants will engage in activities to:

• Identify teaching strategies that support the Mathematics Teaching Practices
• Emphasize NCTM’s Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Math Discussions
• Purposefully consider how they would integrate tasks into their own classroom by looking at the variety of planning and instructional decisions needed before, during and after the lesson

By the end of this workshop, educators should be able to say, I can …

• Analyze how visual and open tasks contribute to implementing effective teaching practices in mathematics
• Identify teaching strategies that deepen my understanding of effective teaching practices for mathematics
• Use students’ responses to advance the understanding of the class as a whole

Pricing and Technology Options

$300 — Workshop registration without TI technology package

$350 — Workshop registration including ONE of the following TI technology packages:

• TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator and TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software
• TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator and TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software
• TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator and TI-SmartView™ CE emulator software for the TI-84 Plus graphing family

Add the TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board and TI-Innovator™ Rover to your product package for $120.

Team Discount: Register four educators for this workshop and the fifth attends free.

This workshop may be combined with Promoting Productive Struggle That Leads to Understanding, taking place July 31 and Aug. 1 at the same location, for an additional registration fee of $200.