Math Professional Development reat Source Education Group partners with PFK Consultants and EDC West to offer a number of Math Professional Development workshops. The workshops are created specifically for teachers by the authors of the Every Day Counts® family of resources—Patsy Kanter and Janet Gillespie. Designed to make math rewarding for students and teachers alike, these interactive, grade-level specific 1- or 2-day workshops encourage immediate implementation of the Every Day Counts resources. Workshops are conducted throughout the year and can be customized to meet your school or district’s needs.

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Every Day Counts Calendar Math Workshops

Every Day Counts Calendar Math workshops help teachers implement 15 minutes of daily math conversation, promote language of math in a classroom context, and supply teachers with supplemental “make and take” materials. Intermediate and advanced workshops are also available for topic-specific strategies such as patterns, number sense, computation, geometry, measurement, and graphing.

Every Day Counts Partner Games Workshops

Every Day Counts Partner Games workshops promote the use of math games to develop students’ computation and problem-solving skills. The workshop helps teachers implement, manage, and assess Partner Games in their classroom.

Every Day Counts: Every Day in Pre-K: Math Workshops

Every Day Counts: Every Day in Pre-K: Math workshops address specific NCTM and NAEYC guidelines for Pre-K math, model discussions and activities used in Every Day in Pre-K: Math, and prepare teachers to teach children patterning, sorting, spatial and geometric thinking, data, and measuring. A Literature Connection: Pre-K workshop is also available to help teachers connect literature and mathematics.

Intervention Workshops

Intervention Workshops are available for after school and summer school math instruction. The workshops are based on Afterschool Achievers: Math Club and Summer Success: Math and are aligned with the NCTM standards.

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Research

Teacher quality is one of the most important factors influencing student achievement and it can be improved by education, certification, and professional development (Darling-Hammond, 2000). “The art of teaching is the art of continuing to learn. Teachers are the most important learners in the classroom” (Graves, 1994). Despite the evidence that teaching strategies and teacher knowledge have a direct impact on what students learn, “a surprising number of teachers have not been fully prepared in the subject areas they teach, an even greater number have not had adequate preparation in teaching strategies and methods” (Darling-Hammond, 1997). In a study funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement on teacher quality and student achievement, the findings “suggest that states interested in improving student achievement may be well-advised to attend, at least in part, to the preparation and qualifications of the teachers they hire and retain in the profession. It stands to reason that student learning should be enhanced by the efforts of teachers who are more knowledgeable in their field and are skillful at teaching it to others” (Darling-Hammond, 2000).

Great Source Research and Efficacy Reports Available

Download the complete Every Day Counts Calendar Math Research Base Download the complete Every Day Counts Partner Games Research Base Download the complete Every Day in Pre-K: Math Research Base Download the complete Afterschool Achievers: Math Club Research Base Download the complete Summer Success: Math Research Base

Darling-Hammond, L. (1997). The right to learn: A blueprint for creating schools that work. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Darling-Hammond, L. (2000). “Teacher quality and student achievement: A review of state policy evidence.” Retrieved September 30, 2003, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n1/

Graves, D. (1994). A fresh look at writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

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