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Making Math Meaningful for
Both Students & Teachers
Presented by
Greg Tang,
Best Selling Author
& Popular Math Educator
Teaching Innovative Math Concepts
& Problem-Solving Skills
About the Seminar: Greg Tang leads you on a
math journey like no other. If you ever felt like you were missing the
“math gene,” never connected with the way you were taught math, or are
simply looking for ways to make math more intuitive and compelling to
your students, then come discover what thousands of teachers have
learned firsthand: a simple, common sense approach to numbers that
holds the key to arithmetic, problem-solving, and mathematical
thinking. Join Greg as he shows teachers from 1st through 6th grade a
step by step, consistent, and coordinated approach to teaching math
that develops good number sense, builds strong computational skills,
and encourages creative thinking and problem-solving. Best of all, it
is so simple and straightforward that it leaves teachers wishing they
had been taught this way. If you ever had doubts about math in the
past, you’ll come away inspired and passionate about how math can be
taught in the future. Math will never be the same!
About the Speaker: Greg Tang’s mission is to
make math enjoyable for children and teachers. He is a highly
sought-after math educator, and an award-winning author of children’s
books. Greg has worked widely with schools on fresh approaches to math
and professional development. After watching too many children
struggle to learn basic math concepts and skills, Greg was inspired to
develop a practical, highly visual approach to the teaching and
learning of math. His intuitive, common-sense approach to math is
guaranteed to help strengthen your students’ understanding of math
concepts and problem-solving skills. You’ll leave this seminar
inspired and excited with tons of challenging and fun ideas for
increasing your students’ math understanding and ability - as well as
your own!
Book signing at the class
available!!
What You Will Learn:
- Introduce numbers and place value in a way that
prepares young learners for higher-order thinking.
- Help children make the critical transition from
counting to adding and adding to multiplying.
- Teach kids to subtract quickly and accurately.
- Teach children the times tables without
memorizing.
- Provide an intuitive understanding of long
division.
- Help students develop better computational and
problem-solving skills by teaching both simultaneously.
- Encourage children to think creatively and
mathematically rather than follow rote formulas and procedures.
- Address different learning styles by
incorporating verbal and visual problems and explanations.
- Take a multidisciplinary approach to teaching by
combining math with reading, science, and even art history.
- Make math truly relevant to children through fun
and challenging books, games, and activities.
Program Highlights
Fluency with Numbers, Numbers & More Numbers
• Sequence and size of numbers
• Building blocks: decomposing numbers 1 to 10
• Creative use of place value
• Alternative number systems (color, shape, bases)
• Regrouping with Funny Numbers
Building Strong Computational Skills
• Transition from counting to grouping
• Strategic approach to addition and subtraction
• Multiplying without memorizing? Here’s how!
• Insight into long division
• Mental math
Creative Problem-Solving that Turns Students On
• Focus on efficiency and accuracy
• Learning to think out-of-the-box
• Looking for smart groupings
• Simplifying with patterns & symmetries
Unleashing Your Students’ Mathematical Thinking
• Activities that build speed, efficiency and accuracy
• Use verbal and visual materials to address different
learning styles
• Move students away from a rote approach to learning
facts & formulas
Making Math/Literature Connections
• Interdisciplinary approach to teaching: math,
reading, writing,
science, fine arts, and art history
• Verbal and visual communication to address
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Reaching Reluctant Readers:
Best Practice at Work in Grades 1-6
Presented by
Dr. Steven L. Layne
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Bestselling
Author
and Popular Literacy Educator |
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About the Seminar: Steven L. Layne is
passionate about building lifetime readers, and he wants to share his
vision with every teacher who’s willing to listen. As a classroom
teacher with over fifteen years of experience in the public schools,
Steve has faced those same reluctant “turned-off-to-books” readers
that sit listlessly in your classroom and wander aimlessly through
your school library. If you’re looking for practical and exciting ways
to turn those kids around, and you want to know about some of the
books that work “magic” - this seminar has effective answers. Join
Steve as he prepares teachers of grades 1-6 to return to their
classrooms ready to bring the magic of reading alive for more kids
than ever before. Steve hits the ground running explaining the
research base that supports reading aloud—one that improves listening
skills, reinforces reading skills. and broadens students’ interests!
Discover how to initiate a “First Read Club” in your classroom or
library, develop a Reading Lounge to motivate reluctant readers
school-wide, and excite kids with dynamic writing assignments in
response to great books. While you’re at it, teach them to profile key
characters from books and treat them to a Picture Book-of-the-Month
Program, No Reason Gift Certificates, Shopping Trips in the school
library, and more! Get ready for reading to become more exciting than
ever before—in your classroom and at your school!
About the Speaker: When you hear the words
Passionate About Reading spoken in a room filled with teachers and
librarians, the name Steve Layne is likely to roll quickly off of
someone’s tongue. Whether he’s keynoting a library conference in New
Hampshire, training pre-service teachers at Judson College in
Illinois, presenting a seminar in Alaska, talking with school children
on Guam, or just going one-on-one with a new acquaintance at the local
Starbucks - his contagious love for books spills out and over into
everything he does. He is, in the words of a recent seminar
participant, “the most powerful instrument of change to cross my path
in 30+ years working in the schools.” Steve’s mission statement is
simple and hasn’t changed since he began speaking as an educator and
author several years ago. “Building lifetime readers is what it’s all
about for reading teachers and librarians. If we aren’t doing that -
what are we doing? We have to be about this business with every fiber
of our being. Infectious - that’s what they should call us!
Professionally speaking, from my perspective at least, there isn’t
time for much else.” Join Steve for this seminar...and begin writing a
new chapter in the story of your work with students in grades 1-6.
What You Will Learn:
- Research studies to cite in support of the
benefits of reading aloud.
- How to make reading aloud effective in terms of
promoting key literacy skills.
- Ready-to-use writing prompts and activities that
engage students in great books.
- Promote deeper understanding of text through
Steve’s Relevant Read Strategy.
- Some great new titles and lesser-known titles
that your students will love.
- Why and how the library can be an exciting
extension of the classroom.
- Dynamic motivational strategies that excite even
the most reluctant readers.
- Environmental factors that increase students’
desire and interest in books.
- Effective ways to increase the number of students
who willingly engage with text.
- Why and how student-teacher rapport can lead to
significant reading gains.
Program Highlights
Best Practice
• Research says - Reading Aloud has Big Benefits!
• Elements of a Successful Read Aloud Program
• Steve’s Stars: Ten Titles that work like magic - and
why they work!
• Resources for locating best books for students in
Grades 1-6
Engaging an Interest in Books and Writing
• Free Write Topics for some terrific titles old and
new
• Reading Guides for an effective chapter-by-chapter
approach
• Relevant Reads teach kids to read more deeply
• Character Journals and guidelines to make them
effective
Building Interest in Books and Reading
• Creating Interest Inventories and making them work
for you
• “Book Hooks” that are effective and economical
• Strategies that Motivate Reluctant Readers
• Effective Programs that generate interest in books
• Sustaining Interest in Books and Reading
• Powerful partnerships - bringing the library & the
classroom together
• First Read Club to honor avid readers and entice
reluctant readers
• Developing a School-wide Reading Lounge
• The Golden Recommendation Shelf: Rapport that creates
readers |
