Breakout Session 3
1:35-2:20 PM
Making Middle School Math Come Alive with Manipulatives, Games, and Activities (Laura, Room # 332)
Middle Level, 6-8
Participants will be actively engaged in working through games and activities around Middle School math topics. These activities can be used to introduce or practice skills. Participants will also do activities around graphing, measures of central tendency, multiplication, operations with integers and probability, and also play a Silent Board game.
Teaching with Desmos for Beginners (Jenny, Room # 242)
Middle Level, 6-8, High School, 9-12, Instructional Coaches, Strategists, Counselors
Are you interested in finding out how to use Desmos to use and create activities for your math classroom? Desmos is one of my favorite tools to make math approachable and visual for my students. This session will get you excited and ready to use the amazing features that Desmos activities has to offer. You will learn how to find and customize activities, as well as create activities from scratch. You will also learn how to use the Desmos dashboard to effectively monitor your students’ progress. We will learn multiple ways to use Desmos to give students feedback. Please bring a device other than a cell phone to get the most out of this session, as it will be a hands-on experience!
Differentiating Instruction with the Quantile Framework for Mathematics (David, Room # 243)
Pre-K and/or Elementary, PK-6, Middle Level, 6-8, High School, 9-12, Instructional Coaches, Strategists, Counselors
This session will explore how Quantile Measures can be used to differentiate instruction for students to meet their needs and connect them with resources that match their readiness to learn, within the framework of the core course curriculum.
Using High Yield Routines to Promote Discourse and Unpack Student Thinking (Michael, Room # 343)
Pre-K and/or Elementary, PK-6, Middle Level, 6-8, High School, 9-12
The effective mathematics teaching practices encourage us to promote reasoning and problem solving, facilitate math discourse, and support productive struggle. Similarly, the standards for mathematical practice encourage our students to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them and to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. These teacher and student practices require math class to have a makeover but changing how students engage with mathematics can seem daunting. In this session, we will engage with, discuss, and plan for small-scale and high-yield routines that can enhance our curriculums and build a problem-solving discourse community in the classroom. These routines require small changes that adapt typical K-12 math problems and classroom questions to be more open-ended and encourage reasoning and discussion. Furthermore, these routines can act as a space to build and reflect on our practice as teachers, providing a non-threatening and small-scale way to adapt our instruction and stretch for growth in targeted ways.
Grow Your PERSONAL Professional Development (Amber, Room # 344)
Pre-K and/or Elementary, PK-6, Middle Level, 6-8, High School, 9-12, University Level, Professors/Student Teachers, Administration (Principals), Instructional Coaches, Strategists, Counselors
In this session, we will connect you to a multitude of resources that will help in developing the areas of your instruction that YOU want to sharpen and enhance for your students. From podcasts and webinars to expert Twitter handles and social media groups, each resource showcased comes with testimonials and will be explored during the session. We will also delve into some of the excellent resources and trainings available through KSDE as well as take a look at some incredible books that will transform your teaching practices. If you are looking to take charge of your own professional development and put a spark into your instruction, come join us for this collaborative and interactive session!
Forgetting Curves: Strategies to Help Retain Learning (Crystal, Room # 122)
Pre-K and/or Elementary, PK-6, Middle Level, 6-8, mostly geared towards grades 3-9
Do your students forget what they have learned? Are you interested in strategies that will boost student learning and can be implemented in your limited class time? In this session, explore factors that impact what we remember and powerful strategies to improve learning retention.
Making Sense of Number Sense (Elizabeth, Room # 222)
Pre-K and/or Elementary, PK-6
Often overlooked, this session will explore the deep number sense and algebraic thinking skills in 1st grade that lay the groundwork for success with multi-digit computation in subsequent grades. Experience a few of the models and strategies introduced in 1st grade so you can infuse them in your 2nd-5th grade lessons.
Strategies for Integrating Math and Science through the NGSS (Russell, Room # 129)
Pre-K and/or Elementary, PK-6, Instructional Coaches, Strategists, Counselors
In this presentation, we will discuss practical ways that the elementary teacher can integrate the science and engineering practices (SEPs) from the Next Generation Science Standards into whole-group and targeted math instruction.
Making the Classroom Accessible to ALL Students (Sarah, Room # 207)
Pre-K and/or Elementary, PK-6
This presentation will allow elementary teachers to see the importance of making their classroom accessible to all students. Teachers will be given ideas to support and extend the learning of students in the math classroom. Teachers will participate in hands-on experiences and examples will be given.