Program

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Please call 857-444-1500 x1 to be added to the waiting list.

This webinar will use Zoom. Registration will close at 9am ET on Thursday.

Originally scheduled to be onsite in Dedham, MA, this program has been moved online and is scheduled for the same date

This webinar will run from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ET/7:00 am - 1:00 pm PT on May 7, 2020 with breaks for a total of 5 hours of instruction time.

Students are more engaged and achieve more academic growth when they get to set their own math learning goals and evaluate their own progress. But how can they set their own learning goals when schools have to meet certain required math curriculum or standards? How can teachers manage a classroom full of students with different, individual goals? At this seminar, you will explore ways to facilitate students’ goal setting, choice of learning tasks, and self-monitoring. Discover ways to help students purposefully practice executive functioning and metacognition skills while engaging in developmentally appropriate and rigorous learning tasks in math. As part of this seminar, you will delve into these questions and topics through hands-on activities, videos, and student work samples. Come examine the process of engaging students in setting their own goals for learning and monitoring their progress towards meeting these goals by actively engaging in the Student-Centered Assessment Cycle. You will leave with a wealth of instructional strategies you can implement in your own classrooms or use when coaching teachers.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe the process for engaging students in setting their own goals for math learning, monitoring their progress, and self-assessing their mastery of these goals
  • Help students purposefully practice executive functioning and metacognition skills while engaging in developmentally appropriate learning tasks in math
  • Examine four types of student goals: in-the-moment, naturally occurring goals; class goals; non-academic individual goals; and academic individual goals
  • Identify strategies for modeling and coaching math goals through progress monitoring and evaluation tools
  • Explore math tasks and classroom structures that support student-created goals and student-centered assessment
  • Create an action plan for engaging students in the Student-Centered Assessment Cycle in your classroom


WHO SHOULD ATTEND
 

This seminar is applicable for PreK-8 teachers, special educators, curriculum and assessment coordinators, math specialists, instructional coaches, and administrators.
 

WORKSHOP LEADER
 

kthunderKateri Thunder, PhD, served as an inclusive, early childhood educator, an Upward Bound educator, a mathematics specialist, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at James Madison University, and Site Director for the Central Virginia Writing Project (a National Writing Project site at the University of Virginia). She is an author for Corwin’s Visible Learning for Mathematics Series and a member of NCTM’s Research Committee. She has followed her passion back to the classroom and currently teaches in an at-risk PreK program, serves as the PreK-4 Math Lead for Charlottesville City Schools, and works as an educational consultant.