New Math Workshops for the Non-Math Teacher!
As we delivered the four strands of Numeracy Workshops around Virginia last year, teachers began asking us interesting questions - not just how to teach math concepts to learners, but more detail on what those concepts were all about for their own professional development. Many of you adult education math teachers are not certified in math and feel that math is not your strength, but you bravely teach our students because you have a good heart and a multi-level and/or multi-subject classroom! These workshops are for you. They are expanded to allow time for extra Q&A, and will not only offer new activities, but revisit ones demonstrated in the standard workshop. You will get a chance to dig deeper and truly understand the math involved, to teach it better to your students.
This year two strands of "Math for the Non-Math Teacher" will be offered: Numbers & Number Sense and Patterns & Algebra
The other two strands for the "Non-Math Teacher" will be offered in 2008-2009: Measurement & Geometry and Data & Statistics
Be sure to request a numeracy workshop in your region. Ask for one of the two new "Math for the Non-Math Teacher" workshops or one of the "Standard" Numeracy Workshops (still available in all four strands this year).
Contact Nancy Chapin, the new Numeracy Project Coordinator, at 540-989-8005 or nachapin@cox.net