Building the Skill and Confidence Levels of Your Struggling Math Students (Grades 6-12)

Presented by Robert Gerver
Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching

Specifically Designed for All Middle and High School Mathematics Teachers, Math Interventionists, Resource Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, and Administrators

The best, most powerful classroom tested strategies designed to increase struggling students’ math success
Effective ways you can increase struggling students’ confidence, perseverance and skills in mathematics – no matter what grades 6-12 math courses you teach
Set the stage for struggling students to succeed in your class, and explore proven ways to increase students’ interest, motivation and achievement in math
Receive an extensive resource handbook filled with effective teaching strategies, activities, projects, and classroom practices designed to help struggling grades 6-12 math students

You are encouraged to bring your own scientific or graphic calculator. It is not, however, a requirement to attend the seminar.

Practical Ideas and Strategies

“I know it when you do it, but…” How many times have mathematics teachers heard this cry from our struggling students? The real translation of this statement is, “I do not know this concept.” Raising the ability and confidence level of our struggling students is no easy task, yet it can be accomplished using specific, proven strategies and approaches. In this seminar, ROBERT GERVER, an experienced and outstanding secondary math teacher, will powerfully enhance your effectiveness in working with your struggling grades 6-12 math students.

Robert will share dozens of strategies and activities that have proven successful over the years in his own math classroom to engage struggling students, improve their skills and raise their self-confidence in mathematics. The emphasis will be on sharing practical strategies and ideas you can immediately implement or easily adapt into your program. Many of these strategies also have the benefit of helping all your math students, not just those who struggle. Join Robert for a dynamic, engaging, enlightening, and fun day of learning powerful, proven ways you can help your struggling math students succeed in and even enjoy mathematics!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Support the Success of Your Struggling Grades 6-12 Math Students
Discover the best, most powerful, classroom-proven ways to help struggling students be more successful in learning math … Outstanding practical strategies specifically designed for grades 6-12 math teachers – no matter what courses you teach and no matter where you teach
Strengthen Skills Through Frequent Feedback
Explore powerful ways to use frequent feedback to build your struggling students’ mathematics skills … Discover ways you can help keep concepts fresh
Set the Stage for Struggling Students to Succeed in Your Class
Explore numerous ways you can help struggling students begin class each day in a productive, purposeful mindset … Learn innovative ways to monitor student skills, avoid typical pitfalls and maximize your struggling students’ success
Enhance Struggling Students’ Participation and Focus in Class
Learn classroom-tested strategies that help struggling students stay on task during class lessons … Discover innovative ways you can raise the bar for student accountability
Increase Struggling Students’ Interest, Motivation and Achievement
Discover ways you can make mathematics more relevant for your struggling students … Engage students with problems and strategies that fascinate and defy intuition
Use a Hands-On Modeling Approach to Increase Student Understanding
Discover powerful ways you can help your struggling students increase mathematical understanding through hands-on modeling … Help students more deeply grasp arithmetic, algebraic, geometric, and many other key concepts
Build Your Struggling Students’ Confidence in Mathematics
Explore proven ways you can help struggling students experience success in mathematics … Discover ways to help students abandon their low expectations of themselves in math class and instead develop a healthy self-confidence
Help Your Struggling Students Persevere
Learn practical and effective approaches designed to help your struggling students practice “reading” mathematics and “fending for themselves” … Equip your struggling students to teach themselves new concepts
Conquer Your Struggling Students’ Aversions to Written Explanations
Discover highly effective activities and strategies designed to improve verbal mathematical explanations of multi-step problems … Learn dozens of strategies that help struggling students express their thoughts orally and in writing
Receive an Extensive Struggling Math Students Resource Handbook
You will receive a comprehensive resource handbook specifically designed for supporting struggling grades 6-12 math students and filled with strategies and activities that you can implement or adapt immediately … Plus, you will receive access to an electronic version in Word that you can customize to meet your needs

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

The best, most powerful, classroom-tested approaches you can use to help your struggling grades 6-12 students be more successful in learning math
Help struggling students “fend for themselves” when they meet new terms and concepts – no matter what math courses you teach
Learn innovative writing strategies that perfectly align with all eight Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice to help struggling math students
Effective, time efficient ways to monitor students closely so they don’t fall behind
Ways to analyze where students struggle on a frequent basis, provide optimal feedback and improve skills
Help your struggling students greatly improve their mathematical writing and explanations
Ways to increase struggling students’ engagement and focus during teacher-directed class lessons
How to build a positive, proactive environment that increases struggling students’ confidence and success
How to weave fascinating problems with surprising results that defy intuition into your daily lessons
Effective ways to break down key concepts into small, gradual steps and to elicit well developed explanations from students to ensure they “get it”
Strategies to help you ensure entry conditions are met for subsequent skills
Ways to extend student understanding of each new concept by “raising the bar” after they succeed

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As a veteran secondary math teacher, I have had students of very different ability levels within every one of my classes, no matter what course I taught. I have seen many students who were disenfranchised with mathematics and struggling to relate to and succeed in math. Early in my career, I resolved to reclaim these students and help them build confidence, stronger skills and increased appreciation for mathematics.

My passion for helping struggling math students morphed into a personal challenge. I worked overtime trying to create engaging curricula, strategies and activities that could help struggling math students to succeed. I relished the challenge of coming up with ways to enhance my class for struggling students, and as it turned out, many of the strategies that helped them succeed had the dual benefit of helping everyone in the class to improve!

As a frequent speaker at math conferences for many years, I have also met countless teachers who employed these same strategies in their own classrooms and came back to my sessions excitedly in subsequent years to tell me about their successes.

It is my pleasure to share these powerful ideas and approaches with you for supporting the success of your struggling grades 6-12 math students. I am excited about the potential these strategies have to greatly enhance your students’ experience, enjoyment and success in math.

Sincerely,
Robert Gerver

P.S. Your struggling students have much to gain by your presence at this seminar! I look forward to meeting you.

Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend All Middle and High School Mathematics Teachers, Math Interventionists, Resource Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

Ready-to-use, classroom-proven activities and strategies for helping your struggling students
Comprehensive samples of effective period-opening activities that foster a productive and purposeful start to every class session
Innovative, field-tested writing strategies for improving student note taking and focus in class
Dozens of purposeful, fun activities designed to engage students and help them gain an appreciation for mathematics
Alternative course options for struggling middle and high school students
Productive, worthwhile extra credit options for struggling students to help them improve and succeed

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 with Other Educators
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in practical, classroom-tested strategies to help their grades 6-12 students who struggle in math.

Consultation Available
Robert Gerver will be available to answer your specific questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.

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