Join us on an action-packed adventure through the daring and thrilling world of math! Participate in an engaging series of challenges that combine play, movement, and discourse to help K-5 students master essential math skills. Inspire and develop strategic thinking, problem-solving, and reasoning abilities in your students. Build a growth mindset and tackle math challenges with confidence and reflection. Unleash your inner math ninja!
This will be a dynamic session with participants not only learning about asset-based math assessment in the early years but also observing and discussing the mathematical brilliance of young children. Participants will learn that math interviews uncover student strengths in a way that is often missed by traditional assessments. They will also deepen their own thinking about how and what to notice when listening to the math thinking of young children. Finally, participants will learn about models of professional learning that make scaling math interviews across a school system viable with high quality implementation.
Discover how SchoolAI can revolutionize classroom learning in math and across all subjects. This session will explore the dynamic role of AI in education, demonstrating how it can make lessons more engaging, personalized, and effective. You'll get hands-on experience with SchoolAI's innovative tools, learning how to integrate them seamlessly into your teaching practice. By the end of this presentation, you'll be equipped with practical strategies to use AI to inspire and support your students' learning journey.....starting right now!
We will share student and teacher experiences from co-taught middle school math classrooms. Classrooms had general education and special education teachers and students and followed a standard curriculum. We will facilitate small group discussions about various participation strategies and their effectiveness from the student perspectives. We will make and discuss recommendations on how to encourage student participation in co-taught mathematics classrooms.
Combine exciting activities with captivating multimedia content to dramatically increase participation and student achievement in your classroom. In this session, teachers will explore reimagined nearpod features designed to enhance math instruction and student engagement. This session will include workshop time for teachers to build relevant tasks for their lessons. a basic working knowledge of the platform is required.
Global competition for in-demand tech-related careers is at an all-time high and will continue to increase as the world ideologies, environmental factors, and high-tech globalization flourish. Students deserve choices in careers and emerging technologies, and academic esports offer access to diverse and equitable workforce skills. Professional skills gleaned from these experiences include problem-solving, teamwork, collaboration, communication, and a plethora of skills mastery which leads to certification in a variety of wide-ranging careers. Discover how to maximize math participation and create relevant rigorous academic curricula. Connect the relevance of innovative curricula to help students successfully complete career pathways/industry certifications while building a solid college prep portfolio. Garner support from all stakeholders and hear from math teachers and the community at large.
This session will give educators information about free educator endorsement courses, including elementary math and math specialist that can be taken fully online at no cost to the educator through a grant with USBE. These courses also roll into an M.ED, which will allow teachers to have completed 1/3 of their degree already. We will also discuss other program offerings, including general professional development, conference credit, etc.
