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Adapting Reading Strategies to Teach Mathematics

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: 2 - 8

Discover practical ways to improve students' understanding and achievement in mathematics.Help students become more sophisticated math problem solvers and more insightful mathematical thinkers through a powerful new approach that adapts reading comprehension strategies for students to use in mathematics.Facilitate meaning making... more

Content-Focused Coaching: Transforming Mathematics Lessons

Lucy West , Fritz Staub

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: K - 8

Content-Focused CoachingTransforming Mathematics LessonsGrades K-8 / Developed by Lucy West and Fritz StaubContent-Focused Coaching is a long-range professional development practice in which coaches work individually or with groups of classroom teachers to design, implement, and reflect on rigorous, standards-based lessons that promote... more

Fostering Algebraic Thinking

Mark Driscoll

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: 6 - 10

Explore the key ideas of algebraic thinking.Mark Driscoll's Fostering Algebraic Thinking School-Based Seminar expands on his popular book and professional-learning toolkits, leading participants to in-depth knowledge of the key ideas underpinning algebraic thinking.Teachers will explore algebraic thinking from two powerful perspectives.... more

Fostering Geometric Thinking

Mark Driscoll , Johannah Nikula , Rachel Wing DiMatteo , Michael Egan

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: 5 - 10

The Fostering Geometric Thinking book and the Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit professional development materials provide opportunities for teachers to explore productive Geometric Habits of Mind while reflecting on their own approaches to mathematics problems as well analyzing student thinking on mathematics problems. This... more

Mastering the Basic Math Facts

Susan O'Connell , John SanGiovanni

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: K - 6

Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Addition and SubtractionGrades K-3Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Multiplication and DivisionGrades 2-6 / Developed by Susan O'Connell and John SangiovanniIn today's math classroom, we want children to do more than just memorize math facts. We want them to understand the math facts they are being... more

Math Misconceptions: From Misunderstanding to Deep Understanding

Honi Bamberger , Christine Oberdorf , Karren Schultz-Ferrell

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: PREK - 5

Math MisconceptionsFrom Misunderstanding to Deep UnderstandingGrades PreK-5 / Developed by Honi J. Bamberger, Christine Oberdorf, and Karren Schultz-FerrellChildren enter school filled with all kinds of ideas about numbers, shapes, measuring tools, time, and money - ideas formed from the expressions they hear...the things they see... more

Putting the Practices Into Action: Implementing the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice

Susan O'Connell , John SanGiovanni

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: K - 8

Putting the Practices Into ActionImplementing the Common Core Standards for Mathematical PracticeGrades K-8 / Developed by Sue O'Connell and John SanGiovanniThe Standards for Mathematical Practice describe eight "habits of mind" that promise to elevate students'learning of math from knowledge to application and bring rigor to our... more

STEM Lesson Essentials for Grades 3-8

Jo Anne Vasquez , Michael Comer , Cary Sneider

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: 3 - 8

STEM Lesson Essentials for Grades 3-8Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsGrades 3-8 / Developed by Jo Anne Vasquez, Michael Comer, and Cary SneiderThis seminar provides the tools and strategies you'll need to design integrated, interdisciplinary STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) lessons and... more

Tools and Traits for Highly Effective Science Teaching

Jo Anne Vasquez

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: K - 8

Tools and Traits for Highly Effective Science TeachingGrades K- 8 / Developed by Jo Anne VasquezWhat does top-notch, learning-centered teaching look like in science? To move from competence to excellence, what should teachers know and be able to do? Tools & Traits for Highly Effective Science Teaching, K-8 answers those questions... more

Writing About Inquiry Through Science Notebooks

Lori Fulton , Brian Campbell

Product Type: Seminar
Grade: 2 - 6

Use science notebooks to their full potential.More than just a tool to build literacy, science notebooks can play an important role in the development of scientific concepts and replicating the work of scientists. Science notebooks are tools for students to make sense of their understandings using recording and organizing strategies... more

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Professional Development

Heinemann PD Catalog-Journal

Be sure to read our latest issue of Heinemann's Professional Development Catalog-Journal. Our Spring 2013 issue explores how we can embrace the new emphasis on Common Core informational text without diminishing children's curiosity and appetite for knowledge, and the overarching importance of sticking with the foundations of best instructional practices.

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