Office of Curriculum, Technology, & Assessment

Program Title: Using Patterns to Develop Number Sense & Skills Program Length: 2 Hours

Delivery Method: Stream Video

Program Provider: USDLC-Keynote Addresses 1

Audience: Teachers and Administrators, Adults, Tutors, Counselors

Additional Material: http://www.usdlc.org/pathways/morekeynote106.jsp

Overview: Discovering and creating patterns lead students to communicate their own ideas and to clarify their thinking about mathematical topics in all strands. Recognizing and describing the rule of patterns in words is the basis for using variables in expressions and number sentences. Finding a pattern is a powerful problem solving strategy. Patterns help students understand and enjoy the strands of mathematics. This session will focus on using patterns in a variety of sources to develop understanding, number sense, and skills.
 

NSDC Standards for Staff Development

Context Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district. (Learning Communities)
• Requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement. (Leadership)
• Requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration. (Resources)

Process Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate its impact. (Evaluation)
• Prepares educators to apply research to decision making. (Research-Based)
• Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal. (Design)
• Applies knowledge about human learning and change. (Learning)
• Provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. (Collaboration)

Content Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students, create safe, orderly and supportive learning environments, and hold high expectations for their academic achievement. (Equity)
• Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (Quality Teaching)

NOTE: Each site must audio mute upon connecting to the session to prevent voice activated moving of the cameras from site to site.

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