Schools often find it challenging to locate effective research-based math intervention ideas feasible for use in classrooms. This full-day workshop presents a series of interventions that elementary, middle, or high school teachers can use to support at-risk students who need targeted interventions in the development of math skills.
The training presents on the following topics:
- A review of current research into ‘best practices’ in math instruction.
- Evidence-based interventions to address specific math skills, including ‘number sense’, math computation fluency, ‘attack skills’ to solve word problems, and development of metacognition skills.
- Ideas to motivate the disengaged math student.
- Effective methods for monitoring students' progress on RTI intervention in various math subskills.
Participants also review a range of helpful Internet resources for school-based math assessment and intervention. Workshop interventions are tied to the multi-tier 'Response to Intervention' (RTI) framework now being widely adopted in schools across the nation.
NOTE: This workshop can be offered in an elementary-level version (grades K-6) or a secondary-level version (grades 7-12).
- understand the key stages of student math skill development.
- have a framework to identify student math difficulties in specific, measurable terms to aid in intervention selection.
- be able to match effective instruction and intervention to targeted student math deficits.
- know of Internet sources of free, high-quality math intervention and assessment materials.
