Catching Up Students Who Have Fallen Behind in MATH (Grades 3-6)

Presented by Bonnie Angel
Outstanding Math Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 3-6: Classroom Teachers, Math Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Interventionists, Instructional Assistants, and Administrators

The most effective math teaching strategies to catch up your students who have fallen behind in math … Proven ways to help your students make more rapid progress learning key math concepts
Research-based assessments to help identify unfinished math learning and specific learning losses
Powerful, easy-to-implement daily routines and activities that help to close the math achievement gap and increase students' confidence in their math abilities
Receive an extensive math instruction digital resource handbook filled with engaging, ready-to-use activities, strategies, and practical instructional tools you can use right away to catch up your math students

Practical Ideas and Strategies

How can we provide targeted, enriching math instruction to address the gap in your students' math learning? How do we address unfinished learning of previous grade level content while also introducing current grade level standards? Where do we begin to assure we're providing the most appropriate support that each of our students deserve? For practical answers to these and many more questions, this is a seminar you won't want to miss!

The focus of this seminar by outstanding math teacher Bonnie Angel is on the most effective and innovative instructional strategies specifically for catching up students who have fallen behind in math. Explore a wealth of practical ideas and resources to help you maximize the impact of your math instruction to help all your students get back on track with their math learning.

Join Bonnie for a day filled with the best, cutting-edge strategies and approaches for helping catch up students who have fallen behind in math. You will leave with a host of rich tasks, meaningful activities and unique ideas you can easily adapt.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Help Your Students Who Have Unfinished Math Learning Catch Up
Accelerate the math learning of your grades 3-6 students using highly effective teaching techniques that emphasize connections between concepts to help your students with unfinished learning from the previous grade level to master current grade level concepts
Identify Gaps in Your Students' Math Learning and What to Do About It
Explore effective, easy-to use assessments to help you pinpoint gaps in your students' math learning … Target your instruction to help students catch up in math
Utilize Free Cutting-Edge Resources for Catching Up Students Who Have Fallen Behind
Explore a host of rich tasks and low-floor to high-ceiling activities you can use that encourage rigorous exploration, helping students form essential connections between representations with critical math concepts
Where to Start Responding Instructionally Based on Your Students' Math Fact Fluency
Learn how to quickly identify where each student needs to begin working to develop their strategic thought surrounding basic facts as well as larger numbers, fractions, and decimals
Help Your Reluctant Math Learners Make Strong Skill and Confidence Gains
Discover instructional activities and strategies for supporting your most challenging math students … Watch your reluctant math students' confidence and skills grow
Learn Practical, Research-Based Math Strategies to Enhance All Students' Math Achievement
Discover meaningful, student-centered instructional strategies and ideas to effectively implement differentiated learning opportunities in your classroom to build your students' conceptual understanding
Promote Perseverance and Motivate the Unmotivated
Empower and motivate your students who have fallen behind in math to approach difficult problems with greater confidence, flexibility, and perseverance … Discover practical ways to help students learn from mistakes and embrace challenges
Address Your Students' Computational Fluency Weaknesses
Strengthen the computational fluency of your students who have fallen behind in math … Gain teacher-friendly ways to help students use relationships and connections rather than depending on rules and memorization to solve problems
Unlock the Power of Growth Mindset in Your Classroom
Numerous practical strategies to enhance student math performance through a growth mindset … Learn proven ways to increase students' motivation, effort, and self-efficacy especially for those who have fallen behind
Receive an Extensive Math Instruction Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive math instruction digital resource handbook filled with engaging activities, techniques and materials specifically designed to help you catch up students who have fallen behind … All resources are highly practical and ready for immediate use with your students!

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Innovative instructional strategies to catch up your students who have fallen behind in math
Highly effective instructional strategies and models that build number sense and computational fluency
Research-based assessments to help you determine exactly where each student needs to begin working on his/her progression of math understanding of all four operations with whole numbers, decimals, and fractions
Daily routines that encourage rigorous mathematical thought and flexible thinking
Engaging strategies to strengthen students' achievement and increase their motivation, effort, and self-efficacy
How to balance between interventions and teaching new content to prevent students from continuing to fall behind
Rich tasks that allow students to enter the task at their readiness level and provide the information we need to accelerate their learning of current grade level math topics
Strategies to help struggling students overcome the mathematical obstacles that keep them from believing they can learn and do math
Powerful ways to help move students along the development of mathematical reasoning from counting to additive reasoning and then to multiplicative reasoning with all sets of numbers
Effective progress monitoring strategies to guide your targeted interventions and whether to intervene or extend based on students' needs
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas – rich tasks, "just in time" scaffolding, cognitive closing activities, models of student thinking, a wealth of organizational strategies for students who struggle with math, motivating problem-solving and computation lessons, and more

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Exploring current grade level math content when so many of your students have unfinished learning from the previous grade level content is huge challenge. Where do we begin to help catch up students who have fallen behind in math? How can we best structure our math instructional time? How do we know what each student knows so we can connect it with what they need to learn?

I have designed this seminar to provide you with a wealth of cutting-edge, proven techniques and ideas to help you catch up your students who have fallen behind or who have unfinished mathematical learning. I want to share practical ideas and approaches you can use to help students who are frustrated, who are reluctant, who lack the stamina and motivation to persevere in solving complex math problems. In our day together, we will investigate ways to engage our students in authentic situations that are relevant and interesting to them. I will share a variety of math activities that are engaging and fun for students, giving you great opportunities to assess and check for misconceptions. We will explore scaffolding techniques for problem-solving, ideas for helping motivate our students, effective ways to target their specific learning needs, and so much more!

Join me and experience a productive day of learning, filled with highly practical strategies and resources designed to help you make a huge difference in your students' mathematical lives. My goal is to give you an array of ideas and activities you can use the very next day to help your students catch up in math. I look forward to meeting you and sharing my experiences, strategies and insights with you!

Sincerely,
Bonnie Angel

P.S. Armed with a toolkit full of engaging, easy-to-implement activities and resources, you will leave re-energized, confident, ready to meet your students right where they are, and to make a remarkable difference with their math learning.

Who Should Attend

Grades 3-6: Classroom Teachers, Math Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Interventionists, Instructional Assistants, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

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

Specific tips, tools, and procedures for closing the math skills gap – perfect for getting students' learning back on track
Ready-to-use assessments and monitoring techniques to effectively target your math instruction to address your students' varied needs
A wealth of easy-to-implement resources that deepen students' math understanding
Ready-to-use whole or small group instructional lessons that strengthen and extend students' mathematical thinking and problem solving skills
Visual Math models that help accelerate students' conceptual understanding of key math concepts
Links to a host of outstanding websites and apps for building student interest and providing targeted math practice and number sense routines

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.

Consultation Available
Bonnie Angel will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own grades 3-6 Math 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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