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Workshops
Tue, Apr 29, 2025
9:00am - 3:00pm
9:00am - 3:00pm
Instructor: Chris Anderson, Eddie Cohen & Brielle Kociolek
Cost: $250
Location: Rutgers LLC
2-Day OpenSciEd Launch and 3rd Day Unit Unpacking
Rutgers CMSCE is offering a 2-day OpenSciEd launch workshop for Middle & High School teachers, coaches, administrators, and other team members who are in the process of adopting OpenSciEd. Participants will take part in the 2-day launch to learn about the pedagogy of OpenSciEd, including phenomena, storyline, coherence, sensemaking discussions, and assessment. During the 2-days participants will get opportunities to experience different elements from several middle and high school units.
The 3rd day will give participants the opportunity to dig deeper and explore different units. We will provide access to several different kits across the grade levels and different kit companies to get to see what you will need to implement the units.
Productive Struggle in Math in Grades 3-8
In this session, we will define and explore productive struggle. We will look at content-specific tasks that you can use in your grade 3-8 math classroom that promote productive struggle in your students' math learning. Participants will take away resources and strategies to incorporate productive struggle into their teaching.
Teaching Fractional Reasoning and Operations for Understanding: Grades 1-5
In this session we will look at how to engage elementary students in fractional reasoning with attention to creating a positive environment around fractions. We will look at how to introduce fractional concepts with attention to meaning and visuals before procedures, rules, and symbols. This session will also serve as a great way to brush up on fraction operations and fraction understanding for the elementary school teacher.
Book included with session: Amazon link to "Fraction Faction"
Incorporating Ideas from "Building Thinking Classrooms" in Math in 6-10 Grades
In this session we will look at ways to incorporate ideas from Peter Liljedahl's "Building Thinking Classrooms" for your 6th-10th class in math. This session is for teachers with little to no experience or knowledge about "Building Thinking Classrooms" and attendees will come away with ideas for incorporation into their own classes.