This online course features Sherri Adler, an engaging math teacher, co-author of several math books, and international presenter. The course opens with a variety of strategies that focus on creating a more successful learning environment for math. It then shifts focus, offering techniques and resources to improve students' mindsets and alleviate math anxiety. Sherri also provides tools to track students' progress and discusses methods to convey that progress to parents and guardians. Numerous games and activities to incorporate in math instruction are featured throughout the course, with an additional focus on subitizing and its importance in catching up students. Supplementary print and digital resources are included.
You will learn how to:
- Establish best practices for math instruction
- Foster a growth mindset and encourage math discourse in your classroom
- Promote productive struggle and elicit student thinking
- Alleviate students' math anxiety
- Improve your students' mastery of math facts and number sense
- Track your students' progress through benchmarks and assessments
- Develop your students' ability to subitize
- Increase student learning with engaging games and activities
Watch an excerpt from this course:
"I found this course to be extremely helpful and I found many new ideas to implement in the classroom. There are so many great games and activities that are easily used with little cost to myself."
- L. Bower
"The instructor was easy to listen to and provided high quality content that I will be using to improve my math teaching."
- V. Wollner
"I like that I was able to go at the pace that suited me. The instructor presented the material well had good knowledge of her subject matter and made activities interactive."
- V. Vandenbusch
"Very helpful. Lots of great strategies for introducing topics and helping students get caught up."
- L. Koelker
