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Teaching Math to All Learners with Differentiation for Students with Special Need

This workshop focuses on strategies and techniques to teach mathematics to students with special needs, specifically in the area of geometry. Participants will deepen their understanding of geometric thinking and develop instructional strategies to support all learners. Collaboration between general and special education teachers will also be emphasized to provide comprehensive instructional support.

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Teaching Math to All Learners with Differentiation for Students with Special Need

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  1. Teaching Math to All Learners with Differentiation for Students with Special Need September 14, 2010 Judy Winn, Beth Schefelker, & Melissa Hedges

  2. Welcome Back! Who’s Here? Getting organized: • Count off by 2’s. • 1’s make one circle facing in. • 2’s make an inner circle facing out. • Each circle moves 5 people to the right. • Read question. • Discuss/Share information with your partner. • On cue – both circles move 4 people to the right. Repeat.

  3. Discussion Questions • Share one thing you did this summer after class ended. • Share one “brush with greatness.” • Share one thing about a trip you took. • Share one thing about the new school year. • What is it you would like your students to learn in their study of Geometry?

  4. Goals for the Year • As teachers of mathematics, deepen your understanding of the development of geometric thinking grounded in the van Hiele levels. • Develop a repertoire of learning opportunities or tasks, and instructional strategies, to push student thinking designed to assist students to higher levels of geometric understanding. • Use knowledge and understanding of levels to assess student development of geometric ideas, and use that information to make instructional decisions based on meeting the needs of all learners.

  5. Goals for the Year • 4. Strengthen your involvement in collaboration between general and special education to provide instructional support for all students.

  6. Strategies to Meet the Goals • Examine student thinking through case studies. • Develop questioning techniques through additional math activities. • Address issues of language and vocabulary specific to geometry. • Identify scaffolds that support access to specific geometric concepts and skills. • Address students’ learning barriers and ways that these barriers impede understanding of geometric concepts • Reflect on lessons, tasks, readings, and activities, in order to examine ways of think about and addressing student abilities and needs.

  7. Strategies to Meet the Goals • Examine collaborative practices and the factors that facilitate their success. • Share strategies for increasing collaboration between general and special educators to provide instruction and support for all learners.

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