BUILD THINKING CLASSROOMS: Increase Your Students' Engagement and Success in MATH (Grades 6-12)

Presented by Kate Degner
Outstanding Secondary Math Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Teaching Math in Grades 6-12: Classroom Teachers, Math Specialists, Math Coaches, Special Education Staff, Math Curriculum Leaders, and Administrators

The best Thinking Classroom techniques and tasks to enhance your current grades 6-12 math program
Key steps and classroom-tested strategies to build and enhance highly effective Thinking Classrooms in math
How to make best use of Thinking Classroom strategies to increase students' participation, ownership of their learning, and overall success in mathematics
Useful tips to work smarter, not harder … You'll receive an extensive Thinking Classroom digital resource handbook filled with outstanding ideas, activities, techniques, and materials you can use immediately

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Have you been interested in building or enhancing a Thinking Classroom? We know when math experiences are engaging and encourage all students to think, the results are great. In this NEW seminar by outstanding secondary math teacher Kate Degner, you'll learn a wealth of outstanding Thinking Classroom ideas and resources, including how to:

Build or enhance highly effective Thinking Classrooms to maximize student engagement and learning in grades 6-12 math
Set up workspaces for learning, using non-permanent work surfaces
Group students and where those groups will work
Find tasks that are considered "rich" and how to best present these tasks
Get students doing deep thinking and problem solving in math

In this fast-paced seminar, Kate will share the best ideas and techniques that have proven successful in her teaching and coaching work to build Thinking Classrooms. Kate's collection of rich tasks, activities, strategies, and tools are easy to incorporate in any classroom and with any existing math curriculum. For practical ways to build a Thinking Classroom to increase math success, this is a seminar you won't want to miss!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Strengthen Math Learning With Engaging Thinking Classroom Lessons
Learn practical ways to create a highly effective and engaging Thinking Classroom – using the math curriculum you already have … Explore a collection of rich tasks, activities, and strategies to increase students' success with math
Maximize the Success of Your Grades 6-12 Math Students
Gain dozens of Thinking Classroom ideas designed to strengthen the mathematics skills of all your students … Learn proven ways to increase students' motivation, effort, and self-efficacy in math
Harness the Power of Meaningful Group Work With a Thinking Classroom
Learn Thinking Classroom approaches for grouping students and posing questions to encourage more productive group work … Maximize students' success, develop mathematical discourse skills, and get all your students actively participating
Explore Proven Examples of Exemplary Thinking Classrooms
How to arrange your classroom, including vertical non-permanent surfaces, to maximize student engagement, participation, and learning … Proven techniques and examples from exemplary math Thinking Classrooms
Strengthen Students' Confidence in Math Using Rich Thinking Tasks
Learn how to structure mathematical tasks so students will persist, persevere, learn from mistakes, and embrace challenges
Use Thinking Classroom to Refine Questioning and Unlock Student Potential
Sharpen your questioning techniques to push your students' thinking and understanding of important mathematical ideas, as they turn around and use questioning techniques to push the understanding of their peers
Empower Students to Become Mathematical Thinkers
Show students the power of mathematics by encouraging classroom discourse, creative thinking, and embracing challenge … Empower middle and high school students to see themselves as thinkers and doers of mathematics
Explore a Wealth of Thinking Classroom Activities, Lessons, and Strategies
Access use-tomorrow rich tasks, mini lessons, and activities to build your own Thinking Classroom … Transform your next class period before you leave the seminar
Use Materials You Already Have to Build a Thinking Classroom
Unlock the Thinking Classroom that already exists in the materials you're already using … Look for and tweak, for maximum effect, the components already at your fingertips
Receive an Extensive Thinking Classroom Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive a valuable digital resource handbook packed with ready-to-use tasks, activities, techniques, materials, and resources geared for immediate use to build a Thinking Classroom to increase students' math success in grades 6-12

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

The best, practical ways to make Thinking Classroom a powerful teaching approach for your diverse learners
How to effectively organize your class from start to finish to build a Thinking Classroom
See examples of exemplary Thinking Classrooms, including the arrangement of the physical environment and the use of vertical workspaces
How to select rich tasks already available in your current math curriculum … specific, realistic methods to build rich tasks with your textbook
Ways to extend each activity to challenge and meet the needs of all students in your classroom
Ways to get all students actively participating and engaging in the math learning
Powerful methods to motivate students in your Thinking Classroom and encourage mathematical discourse
How to boost student engagement and learning using a Thinking Classroom approach
Effective ways to structure group and partner work to maximize student learning
Timesaving tips for easily incorporating Thinking Classroom strategies into the everyday routine of your math classroom
Small changes with big impact … Practical ways to create your own highly effective Thinking Classroom
Access to dozens of rich tasks, activities, and minilessons to strengthen rigorous mathematical thinking, flexibility, and problem solving in your grades 6-12 students

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As a fellow secondary mathematics teacher, I've spent years thinking about the best ways to organize my classroom to make it highly engaging and impactful for students. Creating a Thinking Classroom has made a huge difference, and that's why I'm so excited about this seminar!

I can't wait to share the best-of-the-best tips and tricks I've used to successfully build my own Thinking Classroom, plus lessons learned and pitfalls to avoid, saving you valuable time and effort. Since I'm using these strategies every day in my own math classroom, we'll look at what is working for me – and will work for you, too!

We'll explore ways to build a Thinking Classroom that gets all students participating and becoming higher-level mathematical thinkers! Learn how to build a Thinking Classroom where your work is more reasonable, and your students can actively see their own mathematical skills improving. We'll focus on practical and easy-to-incorporate strategies that will engage your students and increase their success in math.

By our morning break, you'll want to race back to your classroom to share these ideas with your own students. I hope you'll join me at the seminar. You'll find the investment of your time will yield big results for your students, while taking some of the burden off your busy shoulders.

I can't wait to help you build or enhance a Thinking Classroom of your own!

Sincerely,
Kate Degner

P.S. You will leave this seminar re-energized and armed with ready-to-use tools and strategies that will make a tremendous difference for your math students.

Who Should Attend

Educators Teaching Math in Grades 6-12: Classroom Teachers, Math Specialists, Math Coaches, Special Education Staff, Math Curriculum Leaders, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Thinking Classroom Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

The best, highly practical ways to build or enhance a Thinking Classroom to increase student success in math
Dozens of rich tasks that engage students in reasoning and strengthen their conceptual understanding
Practical methods to create rich thinking tasks from your existing math curriculum
Strategies to increase student involvement, interest, and achievement in math
Activities that greatly enhance students' active participation, while strengthening problem-solving and discourse
Timesaving tips and instructional principles for building a highly effective Thinking Classroom

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in building or enhancing Thinking Classrooms to increase student engagement and success in math.

Consultation Available
Kate Degner will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own math program.

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