Summer PD courses will be held at Round Rock High School this year. Please check the course descriptions to register on Eduphoria, and confirmation of location.
Learn the basics to start unlocking the wonderful world of Desmos. Accessible to all, Desmos is a free web based interactive application intended for learning and teaching mathematics. Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more.
Teachers will be exposed to the places in the 6th - 9th grade Algebra I curriculum where models and visual representations are appropriate. Teachers will get the opportunity to experience using these visual and concrete models, discuss the vertical alignment and the power and purpose of these models.
Are you a secondary math teacher who already familiar with the basic features of Desmos, but would like to learn more? This session will extend your knowledge of the application, through exploration of activities and lesson bundles designed to promote mathematical reasoning through patterning, discourse, and investigation.
For secondary math teachers from 6th to 12 who have experienced the power of Desmos, prepare to create your own lessons using activity builder. You will leave with the tools and skillls to create activities that you can implement in your classroom. This session is intended for those already knowledgeable about the built-in capabilities of the application.
Want to take an advanced long-term course that helps both teachers and students build powerful numeracy and deep mathematical understandings ? Are you willing to enter a partnership on your campus between an interventionist and a core math teacher? This is an advanced opportunity for middle school math interventionists and grades 6 and 7 classroom teachers to dive into practical, student-centered methods to support them in helping children think deeply about mathematics. One of the goals of intervention is to support deep number sense and the development of a repertoire of strategies based on landmark numbers and operations. This partnership that is launched with this first session will help build relationships between intervention and core math teachers at the campus level. Interventionists will meet together for district collaborative sessions hosted during the school year. Campus partnerships will meet together on campus, and also participate in webinars, Google classroom activities, and hangouts with the entire district cadre. Let’s take this opportunity to join forces to help support our students who struggle with mathematics. Each participant will receive two books that will be used throughout the year in our book study. The first book is Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle and High School Students, and the second is Lessons and Activities for Building Powerful Numeracy. Both books are by Pamela Harris who is a former secondary math teacher and highly renowned national instructor and speaker. The course is limited so register soon with your partner teacher(s). Audience: MS Interventionists paired with at least one Core Math Teacher at the same school
Overcome the challenge of understanding student thinking using a variety of techniques and manipulatives. Experience how the use of physical and digital models and can lead to greater mathematical understanding.
Learn the basics to start unlocking the wonderful world of GeoGebra, a free web application. Accessible to all, GeoGebra is free web based interactive application intended for learning and teaching mathematics in geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus.
Experience a short routine to implement in your class where students develop number sense through mental math and explaining their reasoning. Use this strategy to build a classroom that elicits thinking that comes from conceptual understanding. Based on the work of Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker.
For those already familiar with GeoGebra, and have an account, this session will extend your knowledge of the application's capabilities. Participants should already have created their accounts for GeoGebra.
Problem Strings are purposeful sequences of related problems, designed to help students mentally construct mathematical relationships. It is a powerful lesson structure during which teachers and students interact to construct important mathematical strategies, models, and concepts. The power of a problem string lies in the carefully crafted conversation as students solve problems, drawing out important connections and relationships. (Based on the Work of Pam Harris)
Ever wonder what your students learned in 5th grade math before coming to 6th grade? In this session, 6th grade math teachers and middle school interventionists will experience the types of strategies highlighted in our RRISD Elementary ARRC. Come learn about the mental fact strategies that students learn as they develop multiplication and division fact fluency. Experience a 5th grade number talk to see how students' computation strategies are recorded symbolically and with visual models. Learn about powerful instructional activities including numberless word problems, notice and wonder, and 3 act tasks, that foster students' mathematical sense making. Let's join forces to help our soon-to-be 6th graders have a successful transition from elementary to middle school mathematics.
Participants include 6th Grade Math Classroom Teachers and Middle School Math Interventionists
The cool thing about open number lines is that they require (and give kids practice in) using number sense to truly understand what is happening when solving algebraic equations at ALL levels of Secondary Instruction. Teachers will pratice solving different problems and learn how to solve them utilizing open number lines, followed by discussions about classroom implementations.
Do your students struggle with percents or proportions? Are you looking for ways to help all students build their numeracy? Come learn how to scaffold students' learning using visual representations and problem strings that build on prior understanding to construct numerical relationships. You will leave with easy to implement ideas and resources. Content focus will be proportions and percents based on the work of Pamela Harris.
Between "absolutely No calculators" and "Calculators every minute in a math class" there is a sweet spot where calculators are tools and not crutches. This will be a discussion to define characteristics of when best to use calculators and when to hold back.
Be prepared to help all students be successful in an accelerated math class. As more students are encouraged to accelerate, new obstacles and challenges will need to be met to ensure success for all (teachers and students).
