Learning Opportunities

Mathematics Leadership Cohort

Presented By

Geri Lorway, Thinking 101

Series Sessions

Series Sessions

Date Time Location
Friday, October 04, 2019 8:30 AM - 3:15 PM I.V. Macklin Public School
Thursday, December 05, 2019 8:30 AM - 3:15 PM I.V. Macklin Public School
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 8:30 AM - 3:15 PM I.V. Macklin Public School
Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Online
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Online
Tuesday, June 09, 2020 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Online

The cohort is a place to study the importance and power of  infusing visual spatial tasks and visual spatial reasoning into our planning, teaching and assessment. The cohort attracts teachers, coaches and administrators who wish to reflect on, critically analyze, adapt and refine their personal knowledge of the essential skills that form the foundation for Literacy and Numeracy. It attracts teachers, coaches and administrators who wish to reflect on, critically analyze, adapt and refine their instructional expertise. Who wish to encourage and support colleagues to do the same.   This series will focus on Continuing to Study our Practice: Puzzling & Sorting as strategies for engaging learners at any level.

  • Puzzling & sorting that uncovers mathematical thinking.
  • Puzzling & sorting that builds focus and perseverance.
  • Puzzling & sorting that  prompts thinking and remembering recall and retrieval skills.  

Geri will share several visual spatial tasks that focus on puzzling & sorting, and at least one video, and how to incorporate them into the activities that teachers can use with their students and share with parents. The content will highlight the value and impact of visual spatial tasks like paper folding, object tracing, model building, card, dice and game playing, practice with visual images that prompt number sense ( Number sense that leads to success with whole and fractional numbers. Number sense that leads to success with computation).

At each meeting you will:

  • spend some time sharing and learning from colleagues
  • spend time connecting key content across grades as teachers,
  • share your learning, and
  • reflect on what matters, what’s meaningful, what’s essential?

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