Presenters:
Sherene Sharpe, Evaluation Services
Robin Harris, Education Program Services
The purpose of this webinar is to support teachers, school administrators, board mathematics leads, mathematics coaches, mathematics mentors, and others in using the 2014-2015 NSA M4 Item Analysis to inform next steps in instruction for the class and for individual students. The session will take participants into the item analysis provided to
•examine the outcome and the item description
•discuss why an item is described as a Knowledge, Application, or Analysis question
•identify patterns of student performance within strands, outcomes, and/or levels of question
•use the curriculum documents to support the next steps in instruction for the class and individual students
Using the M4 Item Analysis for the 2014-2015 NSA 4 (M4) to Support Next Steps in Instruction for the Class and for Individual Students
Sherene Sharpe, Evaluation Services
Robin Harris, Education Program Services
The purpose of this webinar is to introduce teachers, administrators, board mathematics leads, and others to the Lessons Learned document for M4 and how to use it. The document is intended as a support for all elementary teachers, in particular grades Primary – Grade 3 teachers. There are three Lessons Learned in this document. Each Lesson Learned will be discussed in relation to the assessment results, expected pedagogy, next steps in instruction for a class or individual students, and appropriate methods and activities for assessing student learning. The document is a wonderful support for professional development.
Lessons Learned 2013-2014 Nova Scotia Assessment: Mathematics Grade 4
David McKillop, Consultant, Pearson Education
Robin Harris, Mathematics Curriculum Services
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant (Mathematics & Sciences)
Equality is one of the essential understandings that students must acquire as they learn mathematics. This is a quest that begins in grade Primary and continues into senior high school. Learn how this big idea unfolds in Mathematics 4, 5, and 6 and discover how this one big idea can set students up for ongoing mathematical success. Topics to be explored during this webinar will include creating and maintaining balance; the concept of a variable; expanding from the equal sign to greater than, less than, greater than or equal; and common misconceptions about equality.
Big Ideas in 4-6 Mathematics: Developing Equality in Mathematics 4-6
Presenter:
David McKillop, Consultant, Pearson Education
Robin Harris, Mathematics Curriculum Services
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant (Mathematics & Sciences)
Equality is one of the essential understandings that students must acquire as they learn mathematics. This is a quest that begins in grade Primary and continues into senior high school. Learn how this big idea unfolds from grades Primary to 3 and discover how this one big idea can set students up for ongoing mathematical success. Topics explored during this webinar will include equality as balance; how equality is tied to partitioning and part-whole reasoning; common misconceptions about equality; and the types of tasks that build the concept of equality.
Big Ideas in P–3 Mathematics: Developing Equality in Mathematics Primary - 3
Presenters
Kelly Ronan - Pearson Education
Robin Harris - Mathematics Curriculum Services
Eric Therrien - ICT Consultant (Mathematics & Sciences)
This webinar will show how to login to the Pearson eText for Math Makes Sense 4-6, and how to use the Course ID to connect your eText with your students' eTexts. This step will enable you to share notes with your students through the eText platform. Other topics covered will include navigating through the text, adjusting page magnification/view, how to take and share notes, how to highlight passages of text, how to access the added content in the text such as program masters, and how to access the videos and virtual manipulatives.
In this first segment, we introduce the major topics for our series - Oral Language, Planning, Assessment, and Cross Curricular Work - all through the lens of a play-based curriculum. Our featured teachers also discuss ways in which they establish routines, select materials, and infuse playfulness into everything they do. The teachers discuss the importance of play-based learning and their decision to make play an integral part of the learning experience for their students.
