Catching Up Students Who Have Fallen Behind in MATH (Grades 6-12) Presented by Kate Degner Outstanding Secondary Math Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Middle School and High School General Mathematics, Pre-Algebra and Algebra Teachers, Geometry Teachers, Math Interventionists, Instructional Aides, and Administrators

• Learn practical strategies to get grades 6-12 mathematics students back on track and up to speed, quickly and efficiently
• Powerful ways to strengthen learning for grades 6-12 students whose math skills have lagged
• How to layer multiple skills and standards into one lesson to accelerate learning
• Receive an extensive digital resource handbook full of strategies and tools you can use immediately

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Whether it's unfinished learning, summer break, an extended absence, or even a history of struggles in math, students fall behind. And if you're like most secondary math teachers, your workload has increased even more in recent years.

In this seminar by outstanding grades 6-12 math teacher KATE DEGNER, you will learn how to:

• Catch up students who've fallen behind in math
• Maximize struggling grades 6-12 students' math learning
• Cover key standards more effectively
• Keep your workload under control

In this activity-rich seminar, Kate will share her classroom-tested techniques that have proven successful in catching up students who have fallen behind in math. Kate's collection of activities, strategies and tools are formatted for any classroom. From students' struggles with their multiplication facts and fractions to solving challenging algebra problems, you'll learn more effective ways to get quick results.

Whether you are trying to get your students up to grade level or across the graduation stage, these activities can help your students achieve their goals. Come and learn the strategies and techniques that have helped

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Practical Strategies to Maximize Lessons
   Learn how to pack more into each lesson without overloading your students … Use multiple skills and math strands simultaneously to reinforce learning and sharpen your grades 6-12 students' math skills
2. Powerful 5-Minute-a-Day Strategies to Help Students Master Key Math Facts and Fraction Operations
   Hands-on approaches to teach integers that will prepare and help your students be more successful in algebra … Classroom-proven strategies you won't want to miss!
3. Hone Students' Algebra and Geometry Skills
   Use clever, classroom-tested activities to increase engagement in math learning for your grades 6-12 students … Integrate algebra, geometry, number sense, and more in powerful lessons that will strengthen their fluency
4. Get the Highest Return on Your Instructional Time and Help Students Get Themselves "Unstuck"
   Discover must-know approaches to best invest and align your instructional minutes for maximum effect … Learn practical strategies for teaching students to help get themselves "unstuck" on challenging problems, increasing their success in math
5. Learn Powerful Ways to Strengthen Learning for Grades 6-12 Students Whose Math Skills Have Lagged
   Whether it's a learning gap, summer break, an extended absence, or just a need for skill development, these classroom-tested, student-success strategies will help your grades 6-12 students catch up
6. Reduce Your Time Grading Papers
   Put more assessment into the hands of your students so they work more efficiently with fewer errors … Free yourself from correcting papers all evening!
7. Connect With Powerful, Free Online Resources
   Gain access to dozens of free, ready-to-use resources, lessons and activities that are proven to work well with your struggling math students
8. Receive New, Updated Resources That Increase the Effectiveness of Skills Practice
   The top three innovative activities that reinforce critical numeracy skills … See how easily these activities are adapted across a wide range of grade levels and abilities
9. Learn More Efficient Strategies for Teaching and Solving Challenging Algebraic Problems
   Help students extend their learning in arithmetic and number sense so they can better factor polynomials, solve combined work problems, and more!
10. Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
    You will receive a comprehensive digital resource handbook filled with dozens of valuable resources, strategies, ready-to-use tips, and tools to help your students who have fallen behind in math

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Practical strategies to make a dramatic difference for your students who have fallen behind in math
• How to utilize self-assessment techniques to increase student learning and free you to do more meaningful work
• Strategies to help students solve difficult problems with algebra
• Visual approaches to teach fractions, decimals, percents, and algebra using a geometric model
• How to use conceptual layering to teach students to multiply and factor polynomials
• Strategies to present algebra in a brain-friendly format that will engage students
• Online videos that can provide instructional support for students
• Engaging strategies for powerful skill practice usable in any classroom
• Dozens of practical strategies for helping your struggling students develop math fluency with fractions, multiplication, and algebra
• Web resources including free resources, lessons, and activities
• Fun, motivating ideas for teaching numeracy skills
• Numerous resources for busy math teachers to make your job easier!
• Strategies to build conceptual understanding of foundational math concepts
• Help your struggling students get up to speed – show them the way to get back in the game!

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As a fellow mathematics teacher, I have spent years searching for the best strategies to help grades 6-12 struggling math students, and I'm glad to say that these students can find success in math! Now, more than ever, your instructional minutes matter. More is being asked of you every year, and many students come to your class lacking skills they should have previously acquired.

I can show you ways to alleviate your workload without sacrificing results. In fact, you'll get better results! You'll notice that your work is more reasonable, and your students will see that their skills are improving. I'm going to show you the unique and easy-to-incorporate strategies that will get them back in the game and up to speed as quickly and efficiently as possible.

I'll share the best-of-the-best of my classroom-proven strategies. I'm still using these strategies in the classroom every day, so I'm going to show you what is working for me – and that will work for you, too!

By our morning break you will want to race back to your classroom to share these techniques with your own students. But then you'd miss all the practical ideas to come throughout the day. I hope you'll join me in this 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 catch up your students who've fallen behind in mathematics!

Sincerely,
Kate Degner

P.S. I guarantee 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 have
fallen behind.

Who Should Attend

Middle School and High School General Mathematics, Pre-Algebra and Algebra Teachers, Geometry Teachers, Math Interventionists, Instructional Aides, and Administrators

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

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

• Ready-to-use, classroom-proven math strategies to help get students up to speed
• Ideas for extensions and LOTS of links to FREE online resources
• Great activities for students who are missing critical mathematics content
• Specific strategies to strengthen student learning through "multi-stranding" and self-assessment
• High yield math strategies to improve students' number sense
• Low floor, high ceiling math tasks
• Instructional routines to build student efficacy and independence

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 helping catch up grades 6-12 students who have fallen behind in math.

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

Semester Credit Option
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
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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