Wondering how bring out the everyday math in current activities? This workshop will apply current research to provide specific strategies to guide young children in identifying and applying early math concepts. We will cover basic mathematical concepts like, more and less, bigger and smaller and one-to-one correspondence. Participants will walk away with techniques for highlighting these concepts in current classroom activities, as well as, new classroom activities.

Heather Prince-Clark, MSEd, is the Curriculum Coordinator of the Bank Street Family Center, where she supervises the Infant/Toddler mixed-age, inclusion classrooms and teaching staff. Ms. Prince-Clarke is a math and literacy consultant with the National Head Start Family Literacy Center, providing math and literacy training to Head Start programs around the country. For eight years, she taught at the Bank Street Family Center in an infant and toddler inclusion setting and has been working with children and families for more than 15 years. She earned a Master's degree in Infant and Parent Development and Early Intervention with a specialization in Special Education at the Bank Street College of Education. She has a BA in Psychology from Hunter College, NYC.

Judi Gentry, MSEd, has been the Head Preschool Teacher at Bank Street College's Family Center, working with 3 to 5 year olds in an inclusion setting, for over 10 years. In the 2009-2010 school year, she was the interim Co-Director of the Bank Street Family Center, where she supervised the Preschool, inclusion classrooms and teaching staff. Ms. Gentry is a math and literacy consultant with the National Head Start Family Literacy Center providing math and literacy training to Head Start programs around the country. Ms. Gentry earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York and has a Master's degree in Early Childhood General and Special Education from Bank Street College of Education. She has a dual certification in both General Education and Special Education.

November 13
Saturday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 11/5

This course will examine how children construct an understanding of fractions, decimals, and percents. We will look at various visual models that help students make sense of these topics. We'll examine big ideas and strategies central to fractions, decimals, and percents, and also look at ways to design a curriculum that elicits these models, big ideas, and strategies. Throughout all of our discussions and activities, we will develop realistic contexts that allow students to connect fractions, decimals, and percents to the world outside of school.

Julie Broderick, MSEd, teaches at The School at Columbia University. Previously, she taught second, third, and fifth grades at the Manhattan School for Children. She regularly teaches math classes at the Bank Street College Graduate School, and she leads math workshops in elementary schools throughout the NYC area.

October 22 and 23
Friday, 5:15 - 9 pm
Saturday, 9:30 am - 5 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1175
Materials fee $30 (includes required text)
Registration Deadline 10/15

Enhance how you meet the needs of children with diverse abilities in your classroom! Learn easy-to-use strategies that recent large-scale research has found dramatically uplifts math achievement, and so meet the criteria of Response to Intervention (RTI) Practices. These strategies include: fostering climate, tiered lesson planning, grouping students, diagnostic pre-assessments, formative ongoing assessment, and supporting students with difficulties while challenging high achievers. Acquire these strategies and techniques and use them immediately -- and watch your students' achievement soar!

Leslie Laud, EdD, has used differentiated math instruction in her own classroom and with her colleagues for over a decade. She is currently completing a workbook for teachers on this topic. She also leads study groups for math teachers interested in enhancing how they differentiate instruction in their classrooms.

Co-teachers: Julie Fila, MA; Susan Hirsh, MEd; Laura Palin, MAT; and Marty Wagner, MS - all are math teachers at Wellesley Middle School in Wellesley, MA.

Course timetable: October 19 √ November 30
1 CEU: $350 (not offered for credit)
Registration deadline: 10/12