In this course, students will read Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching where author Jo Boaler delivers a plan to banish math anxiety and lays a foundation for mathematics success that anyone can build on. This text is perfect for students who have been convinced they are naturally "bad at math," by demonstrating how to turn self-doubt into self-confidence by relying on the "growth mindset" framework. Students will reflect what they’ve read to their own educational setting.
Instructor: Kelli Varley
Book Study Course: Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching by Jo Boaler
In this course, students will have an opportunity to look at the research on how to teach young children how to read. They will reevaluate current practices, explore various misunderstandings around how we teach children how to read and explore instructional shifts to apply a new perspective to their instructional routines.
Instructor: Kelli Varley
Book Study Course: Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom by Jan Burkins and Kari Yates
In this course, students will have an opportunity to look at the research on how to teach young children how to read. They will reevaluate current practices, explore various misunderstandings around how we teach children how to read and explore instructional shifts to apply a new perspective to their instructional routines.
Instructor: Kelli Varley
Book Study Course: Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom by Katie Cunningham, Jan Burkins and Kari Yates
Rather than focusing on what students haven’t mastered, this course identifies students' mathematical strengths. Five key teaching turnarounds are highlighted: identify teaching strengths, leverage students’ strengths, design instruction from a strengths-based perspective, help students identify their points of power, and promote strengths in the school community. Each chapter provides opportunities to reflect and transfer practice while also sharing resources, activities, and tools that can be applied directly to the K- 6 classroom.
Instructor: Kelli Varley
Book Study Course: Strengths Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics by Beth McCord Kobett and Karen S. Karp
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