AERO Preconference Workshop in Mathematics
Erma Anderson

AERO Teachers Taking Action: Implementing the NCTM Effective Teaching Practices

Effective teaching matters for student learning of mathematics. This two-day workshop is designed to provide participants a richer understanding of the high-leverage, research-informed teaching practices identified in NCTM’s Principles to Actions:

• Establish mathematics goals to focus learning.
• Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving.
• Use and connect mathematical representations.
• Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse.
• Pose purposeful questions.
• Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding. Support productive struggle in learning mathematics.
• Elicit and use evidence of student thinking.

Graduates of the AERO Math Specialist in International Schools and Mathematics Fellows in International Schools will share how the eight teaching practices have formed a framework to guide their daily work of teaching mathematics.

They will engage participants with classroom artifacts (e.g. student work and tasks) from their classrooms providing ample opportunity to experience and see how the teaching practices are being implemented effectively PreK-12.

Participants will design a formative assessment lesson around a cognitively demanding task and consider the ways in which multiple mathematical representations and purposeful questions can support discourse and elicit evidence of student learning.

Prerequisites

Enrollment is limited to participants from NESA schools that have already adopted the AERO standards (if you are from a school outside the NESA region that has adopted AERO standards, please contact us if you are interested in attending). Please bring your laptop to this workshop.

Eligibility:

Enrollment is limited to participants from NESA schools that have already adopted the AERO standards.

Cost:

There is no additional registration fee to participate in the AERO Mathematics Pre-conference Workshop.

Registration:

• Sign up for this preconference workshop via the Spring Educators Conference registration form.
• If you are not staying on to attend the SEC, and will attend only the AERO preconference workshop, please enter "AERO only" in the Comments box on the SEC registration form.
• Maximum participants: 30.

The full registration fee includes the Adaptive Schools Advanced Seminar Workbook.

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