Getting Started with the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Mathematics

Getting Started with the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Mathematics

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce teachers to the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Mathematics. These practices are intended to support educators across Michigan as we work to enhance the ways in which children learn to use, understand, and do mathematics using a strengths-based approach. The long-term goal is that these Essential Instructional Practices in Early Mathematics: Prekindergarten to Grade 5 will prompt shifts in systems, learning, teaching, and assessment so that each and every child develops strong early mathematical understanding, skills, and dispositions.

Learner Outcomes

Explore educator learning and become aware of thinking traps.

Dig into math identity.

Understand the values behind the essentials.

Leave with a foundation to the essential practices.

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Tenets

Engaged, Supported, and Challenged

Date

November 10

Time

9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Location

Cheboygan-Otsego-Presque Isle (COP) ESD

Audience

Math teachers preK-grade 5 (new to the Essentials)

Presenter

Heather Kowalski, COP ESD Math Consultant