Professional Development Programs

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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 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 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
  •  Training is focused on young children’s counting and the use of counting collections.

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  • 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.