Washington DC - Summer 2010 Workshops

Developing a Landscape of Learning: Early Number Sense, Addition and Subtraction*

Date: Monday and Tuesday, July 12 and 13
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $550

Instructor: Catherine Twomey Fosnot, Ph.D., Professor of Education at The City College of New York, Director of Mathematics in the City, author of the Young Mathematicians at Work series and Contexts for Learning Mathematics

Join Catherine Fosnot and Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 2 educators for this two-day workshop to explore the development of early number sense, leading to computational goals and strategies for addition and subtraction. Through active learning, analysis and reflection, participants build a trajectory of learning, further developing content knowledge, visions for math workshop, and crafting and doing mini-lessons.

Day One:
• Immersion as learners in an active math workshop
• Ways to use games, contexts and routines to support development of early number sense
• Arithmetic Rack to develop and master the basic facts

Day Two:
• What it means to calculate with number sense
• Mini-lessons illustrating how to develop number sense
• Open number line and double number line as helpful tools in representing addition and subtraction strategies

Participants view digital video of teachers and children at work together, explore the Contexts for Learning materials, and learn how to use these materials with their schools’ core curricula.

To register, please go to www.beauvoirschool.org/voicesforlearning

Developing a Landscape of Learning: Multiplication, Division and Fractions*

Date: Wednesday and Thursday, July 14 and 15
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $550

Instructor: Catherine Twomey Fosnot, Ph.D., Professor of Education at The City College of New York, Director of Mathematics in the City, author of the Young Mathematicians at Work series and Contexts for Learning Mathematics

Join Catherine Fosnot and Grades 3-5 educators for a two-day workshop to deepen your understanding of mathematics and the development of it with 3-5 learners. Participants will be learners in an environment where mathematics is seen as the posing and solving of problems, the searching for patterns, and the construction of ideas, models and strategies.

Day One:
• Active math workshops, investigating multiplication, division and fractions
• Children’s mathematical thinking, the role of context in supporting development, and the planning of discussions
• Math Congress as a way to share strategies with a group

Day Two:
• Mini-lessons in developing efficient computational strategies n multiplication and division
• Ratio table and the open array as helpful tools in representing strategies

Participants view digital video of teachers and children at work together,
explore the Contexts for Learning materials, and learn how to use these materials with their schools’ core curricula.

* Sign up for both Developing a Landscape of Learning workshops and receive a 10% discount off the total tuition.

Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia) can award 12 hours = 1.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this course. A certificate and permanent transcript of CEUs may be useful to professionals for promotion, employment, or certification purposes. The CEU registration of $45 is separate from the course registration fee and is optional.

To register, please go to www.beauvoirschool.org/voicesforlearning