During my undergraduate courses at Cabrini, I had a course specifically about how to teach math in elementary school. Throughout the course I learned different ways to get students engaged, involved, and using manipulatives to be successful in math. Additionally, math was always one of my favorite subjects growing up so I really enjoyed teaching. However, I was never taught what to do with struggling students, especially those with disabilities. Having a class with 24 students, makes it difficult to meet with those struggling students for one on one support. This webinar provided me with great techniques and strategies for those with disabilities in regards to math instruction. I really enjoyed learning about how assistive technology can go hand in hand in supporting math instruction.
Key points...
- IEP goals do not equal curriculum!
- Goals: what to measure.
- Curriculum: guide for progression of learning
- Practice is not instruction!
- Concept knowledge is as essential to math as comprehension is to literacy.
- Educators rising expectations allows for students to have better opportunities to learn math.
- Good instruction includes...
- Scope and sequence of skills aligned to standards
- Comprehensive and systematic progression of learning
- Multiple hands-on math tools, methods, and materials
- Differentiated tools, materials, and instructions
- Break skills down, slow the pace down
- Assistive technology can help those with disabilities access math...
- Talk and write about math
- Understand math
- Perform a math task
- Engage in math
- Learn in the best way
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