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• Deepening Math Understanding through Routines - AMPLFY

  • When
    6 May 2024
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    4:00 PM

  Instructional routines can not only deepen conceptual understanding for individual students, but they also have the ability to present opportunities that spark creativity and build community. Join Kristin Gray to learn how to use routines to strengthen engagement and student agency in your classroom.

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• Will This Be on the Test? (Online Facilitated). SABES

  • When
    8 May 2024
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

  Overview: Standardized testing, whether it is for high school equivalency or measuring student gains, is a major concern in adult numeracy classes. It can be tempting to "teach to the test" in the hopes of getting students ready to get a passing score as quickly and painlessly as possible. However, making test preparation the main focus of instruction does not create lasting learning and often is not even effective in achieving passing scores or demonstrating gains. It is possible to teach conceptually and do explicit test preparation at the same time. When students get exposure to—and practice with—standardized test questions in a context that prioritizes conceptual understanding and flexible thinking, they will be more prepared to achieve test scores that fully reflect their skills and understandings.  

  Audience: This professional development activity/course is designed for ABE and HSE teachers at all levels of math ability and comfort

  Description In this workshop, you will be introduced to Test Talks, an instructional routine for building student confidence, understanding, flexibility, and familiarity with standardized test questions. You will experience Test Talks as a learner with a variety of multiple choice test-style questions on a range of topics. In addition, you will get access to a resource containing a bank of test questions to use with Test Talks. 

  Please note: About a week before the event, registrants will receive a separate email from the SABES Math team at TERC (sherry_soares@terc.edu) with instructions on how to access the Zoom session

  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:

  • Facilitate a Test Talk
  • Reason visually and conceptually about test questions on a variety of topics
  • Use test questions to teach conceptually and equitably
  • Use the "Will This Be on the Test?" resource packet

  Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s): Sarah Lonberg-Lew

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• Intro to Desmos Activities (Beginner) - AMPLIFY

  • When
    8 May 2024
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    6:00 PM

  New to Desmos Classroom? In our free introductory webinar, you’ll learn how to teach a pre-made Desmos Classroom lesson to your students, and make use of our delightful classroom facilitation tools to support student learning

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• Will This Be on the Test? (Online Facilitated) - SABES

  • When
    15 May 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

  Overview: Standardized testing, whether it is for high school equivalency or measuring student gains, is a major concern in adult numeracy classes. It can be tempting to "teach to the test" in the hopes of getting students ready to get a passing score as quickly and painlessly as possible. However, making test preparation the main focus of instruction does not create lasting learning and often is not even effective in achieving passing scores or demonstrating gains. It is possible to teach conceptually and do explicit test preparation at the same time. When students get exposure to—and practice with—standardized test questions in a context that prioritizes conceptual understanding and flexible thinking, they will be more prepared to achieve test scores that fully reflect their skills and understandings.  

  Audience: This professional development activity/course is designed for ABE and HSE teachers at all levels of math ability and comfort

  Description In this workshop, you will be introduced to Test Talks, an instructional routine for building student confidence, understanding, flexibility, and familiarity with standardized test questions. You will experience Test Talks as a learner with a variety of multiple choice test-style questions on a range of topics. In addition, you will get access to a resource containing a bank of test questions to use with Test Talks. 

  Please note: About a week before the event, registrants will receive a separate email from the SABES Math team at TERC (sherry_soares@terc.edu) with instructions on how to access the Zoom session

  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:

  • Facilitate a Test Talk
  • Reason visually and conceptually about test questions on a variety of topics
  • Use test questions to teach conceptually and equitably
  • Use the "Will This Be on the Test?" resource packet

  Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s): Sarah Lonberg-Lew

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• Desmos Dashboard Deep Dive (Intermediate) - AMPLIFY

  • When
    16 May 2024
  •  
    8:00 PM

  Ready to dive deeper into the Desmos Dashboard features?

  In this webinar designed for beginner/intermediate users, you’ll practice using Snapshots and feedback tools to deepen student learning and motivate classroom conversations.

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• Creating Math Classrooms Where Students Participate (Online Facilitated) - SABES

  • When
    23 May 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM

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  Overview: As teachers, we often notice that students who participate in other subjects shut down when it comes time for math. What is it about their experiences that leads them to believe that math class is not a place for them? Adult education students receive many messages, from both external and internal sources, about their ability to do and learn math. Some students have “learned” that they are not good at math and feel as though their ideas and questions do not belong in math. In this workshop, we will examine how systemic racism has damaged many students' sense of themselves as math students. We will also share instructional practices to engage students and help them develop positive math identities.

  Audience: This professional development activity/course is designed for HSE/ABE generalists who teach math

  Description: We will engage in a rich math task and dig into the impact of that experience on ourselves as learners in order to explore how the expectations we hold and communicate to our students affect their ideas about themselves as mathematical learners and thinkers. We will reflect on how the cultural lenses we have as teachers can affect our students.

  Please note: About a week before the event, you will receive a separate email from the SABES Math team at TERC (sherry_soares@terc.edu) with instructions on how to access the Zoom session.

  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:

  • Facilitate an open question routine
  • Identify practices that create a safe and equitable classroom
  • Understand how racial inequity shows up in students’ lives
  • Understand how math teachers can disrupt racial inequity

  Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s): Mark Trushkowsky & Sarah Lonberg-Lew

  This workshop is being offered by the SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum and Instruction PD Center

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• Using Visual Mathematics with English Learners: Percents and Ratios (Online Facilitated) - SABES

  • When
    29 May 2024
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

  Overview: When students work with visual models that they can see, manipulate, or create, it opens visual pathways in the brain that provide added meaning to the area of the brain that processes abstract numbers. In this workshop, we will work with visual representations of percents and ratios and discuss how this enables students at multiple levels of math and language proficiency to better understand abstract mathematical concepts.

  Audience: This professional development activity/course is designed for ESOL and HSE teachers at all levels of math ability and comfort

  Description: In this interactive, 90-minute workshop, you will construct understanding of percents by deconstructing an image and creating your own visual model and math question. You will participate in a survey, and the data collected from the survey will be used to reason about ratios in a real-world context. You will be sketching, using virtual manipulatives, and sharing problem-solving strategies. You will leave with a toolkit of practical strategies for teaching ratios and percents using visual models and student-generated data. The resources available after the session can be used in a virtual or in-person classroom with both English learners and high school equivalency students. 

  Please note: Registrants will receive a separate email from Sherry Soares from the SABES Math team at TERC with instructions on how to access the Zoom session.

  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:

  • Explain how visual mathematics can unlock learning potential
  • Collect real-world data and use it to communicate math concepts
  • Apply visual strategies to teach ratio and percent concepts

  Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s): Patricia Helmuth

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• When Students Resist Teaching for Conceptual Understanding (Online Facilitated) - SABES

  • When
    30 May 2024
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    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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  Overview

  “When am I ever going to use this?”

  “Just tell me how to do it.”

  “This isn’t going to be on the test.” 

  A challenge we may face when we teach for conceptual understanding is student pushback. Many students expect math class to be about memorizing and repeating procedures. Students can be invested in traditional ways of teaching and learning. They may conflate succeeding in math with succeeding in a traditional classroom even if that model has not worked for them, has led them to hate math, or has convinced them that they are not good at it.

  Although this can be discouraging, student resistance is important to building trust and can be an opportunity to build community.

  In this workshop, we will discuss how to respond to resistance from a place of empathy and look at how math can be a tool for identifying and disrupting the effects of racism.

  Audience: This professional development activity/course is designed for HSE/ABE generalists who teach math

  Description: We will discuss what we often hear from students. We will then dig in to what is going on for students when they resist and how that understanding can inform our response. We will introduce and practice using a frame for receiving and responding to resistance.

  We will also look at research on implicit bias and consider its implication on our classroom practice.

  Please note: About a week before the event, you will receive a separate email from the SABES Math team at TERC (sherry_soares@terc.edu) with instructions on how to access the Zoom session.

  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:

  • Facilitate an expanded Notice/Wonder routine
  • Reflect on our authority and our biases in the classroom
  • Be prepared to hear and respond to student resistance

  Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s): Mark Trushkowsky & Sarah Lonberg-Lew

  This workshop is being offered by the SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum and Instruction PD Center

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• Using Math to Identify and Impact Social Justice Issues in Our Lives (Online Facilitated) - SABES

  • When
    6 Jun 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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  Overview: Math can be a powerful tool for identifying and disrupting the effects of racism. Developing strong skills in proportional reasoning and statistical literacy and carrying this reasoning into the world, prepares students to recognize the effects of racism and to critically question and respond to real world issues.

  Audience: This professional development activity/course is designed for:

  • All adult education math practitioners
  • HSE/ABE generalists who teach math

  Description: In this workshop, we will explore how to teach math that students can use to think critically about the world. We’ll use materials from The Change Agent, a resource that is free to Massachusetts teachers. It provides examples of how to prepare students to recognize injustice through proportional reasoning and statistical literacy.

  Please note: About a week before the event, registrants will receive a separate email from the SABES Math team at TERC (sherry_soares@terc.edu) with instructions on how to access the Zoom session. 

  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:

  • Find effective and engaging social justice resources that fit in your math class
  • Use proportional reasoning to think critically about data
  • Use understandings about proportionate and disproportionate relationships to identify injustice
  • Empower students to use their reasoning and their voices to disrupt the effects of racism
  • Expand the Notice & Wonder instructional routine to help students see themselves in the math

  Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s): Mark Trushkowsky & Sarah Lonberg-Lew

  This workshop is offered by the SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum and Instruction PD Center

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• The 2024 ANN Annual Membership Meeting (online)

  • When
    7 Jun 2024
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    2:00 PM

  The 2024 ANN Annual Membership Meeting on June 7, at 2pm Eastern/1pm Central/12 Noon Mountain/11am Pacific.

  The meeting is online and all ANN Members are encouraged to attend.

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• Intro to Activity Builder (Intermediate) - AMPLIFY

  • When
    12 Jun 2024
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    7:00 PM

  Looking to start building your own lessons in the Desmos Classroom platform?

  Join us at our next webinar to learn all about our free lesson building tool, Activity Builder (AB). Learn how to use AB to create and edit your own dynamic lessons to engage and delight students.

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• Intro to Computation Layer (Intermediate/Advanced) - AMPLIFY

  • When
    18 Jun 2024
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    6:00 PM

  If you’re an advanced Desmos Classroom user, discover how to build simple, engaging interactions using our scripting language, Computation Layer (CL). In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the basics you need to add more functionality to your lessons and make them even more dynamic.

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