PRIME Professional Development Opportunities
Fall 2006

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To register for these opportunities contact Dixie at CSAC Staff Development.

Title: Cognitively Guided Instruction I
Instructor: Deann Kertzman & Kim Clark

Target Group: elementary math teachers & special education staff
Lane Change Status: all certified staff
Available Credit: 2 BHSU graduate credits/2 credits SD Recertification/30 C.E. credits/Audit
Date: Fall 2006

If you have previously taken “Cognitively Guided Instruction I and are interested in CGI II contact the instructor.

This class is designed to assist teachers in using research-based knowledge about children’s mathematical thinking to guide instruction. Participants will learn by watching, discussing, and reflecting on how students solve mathematical problems. Participants will learn about a structured framework of mathematics and how children’s thinking evolves through the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The text Children’s Mathematics will be provided by the PRIME Grant.

Title: Cognitively Guided Instruction I I
Instructor: Vicki Kapust

Target Group: secondary math teachers & special education staff
Lane Change Status: all certified staff
Available Credit: 2 BHSU graduate credits/2 credits SD Recertification/30 C.E. credits/Audit
Date: Fall 2006

This class is designed to assist teachers in using research-based knowledge about student’s mathematical thinking to guide instruction. Participants will learn by watching, discussing, and reflecting on how students solve mathematical problems. Participants will learn about a structured framework of mathematics and how student’s thinking evolves through the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The text Thinking Mathematically will be provided by the PRIME Grant.

Title: Relearning to Teach Arithmetic: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
Instructor: Stacie Tschetter & Nancy Ward

Target Group: elementary & grade K-8 special education staff
Lane Change Status: all certified staff
Available Credit: 1 BHSU graduate/undergraduate credit/1credits SD Recertification/15 C.E. credits/Audit
Date: Fall 2006

This professional development course guides teachers to think critically about students' comprehension of arithmetic. Participants view and discuss video segments and then work on related math problems and discussion questions. The videos focus on students as they demonstrate and explain to their teachers and classmates how they have solved problems involving whole-number computation. The videos also include narration and a number of interviews with teachers who offer their perspectives on the kinds of learning environments that support students as they build their understanding of concepts related to arithmetic.

By learning about computation across the grades, we are better able to understand how these ideas develop, how they are connected, and how students within and across grade levels, develop an understanding of whole number computation.