Our professional learning is planned and facilitated by experienced CGI educators.
The courses designed, were informed by the CGI research on children’s thinking about
mathematics and research on practices that support teacher shifts in instructional
practices. Classroom practices are embedded in all of our professional learning.
Teachers who attend our CGI Professional Learning will learn to:
- Be curious about students’ thinking
- Create classroom cultures that encourage student thinking
- Choose or write problems to meet the needs of students and grade level standards
- Craft questions focused on student thinking
- Engage students in their own thinking about mathematics, as well as, the thinking
of other students
- Support students to make connections with strategies and mathematical content
- Adapt problems and/or number choices to differentiate their instruction for ALL students
- Create “Fearless” Mathematicians
− CGI for Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
CGI for Kindergarten through Second Grade Content Focus:
- Counting
- Addition and subtraction Problem Types
- Addition and subtraction with single digits including learning addition and subtraction
facts
- Introduction to multiplication and division
- Base-ten concepts with a focus on whole numbers
- Addition and subtraction with multidigits
- Supporting student understanding with equations
- Algebra
- Teacher noticing and questioning
- Classroom practice
− CGI for 3rd through 5th Grade
CGI For Third through Fifth Grade Course Focus:
- Multiplication and division with single and multidigit factors including learning
multiplication and division facts
- Developing fractional reasoning
- Fractions as quantities
- Multiplication and Division of fractions
- Addition and subtraction of whole numbers and fractions
- Base-ten concepts, whole numbers and decimals
- Supporting student understanding with equations
- Algebra
- Teacher noticing and questioning
- Classroom practice
− Examples of Other CGI Courses
- Fact Fluency
Training is focused on the development of fact fluency and how to support development
in classroom instruction.
- Classroom Coaching
Support teachers in the classroom
- CGI for Administrators
Although we do encourage district administrators to participate in CGI professional
learning with their teachers, we can offer Administrative support in:
- Beginning CGI
- Student Work activities administrators can use to guide CGI work at their site
- Classroom walkthroughs with a CGI Teacher Leader
- CGI Professional Development Planning
Consulting with site or district to create CGI plan specific to district or site.