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Teaching Mathematics Using Alternative Strategies and Modalities – Summer Institute 2019

Learning math can be challenging, especially for students who have specific learning disabilities. Language skills, executive functioning, motor planning, and math-specific visual processing skills all play a role in acquiring math competency. Specific cognitive limitations and their resulting impact will be explored. Using an interactive format, methods will be presented that use whole-to-part, multimodal strategies to help students perceive, process, express, relate, store, and retrieve information efficiently.

This interactive course features methods to administer and interpret informal testing to prescribe and service effective short and long-term math goals for individuals. Learn to use innovative methods to explain and perform concepts and procedures customarily taught at the elementary through middle school level. While the methods presented are essential for individuals with language-based learning disabilities and/or executive function disorders, all students can benefit from these strategies.

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• identify cognitive parameters that impact math learning by reviewing trends expressed on cognitive testing (including the WISC and R.O.C.F.)
• implement teaching methods that utilize multiple modalities that are modeled in class and described in required readings
• implement techniques for enhancing mathematics learning in children with varied abilities through peer teaching exercises
• demonstrate direct instruction of math procedures using manipulatives during peer teaching exercises

LEVEL

This course is appropriate for educators at the elementary and middle school levels.

REQUIRED TEXT

Multiplication and Division Facts for the Whole-to-Part, Visual Learner by Christopher Woodin. Text may be ordered at www.landmarkoutreach.org.