County-Wide K-12 Math PLC Opportunity

Interested in participating in a county-wide PLC through participation in an online course focused on multiplication and division of whole numbers and bridging the understanding to fraction understanding?

• One major concern we hear from middle and high school teachers is that students still struggle to understand multiplication and division.  
• What do we do when students are in Math I and still don't know basic multiplication facts?  How do we intervene?
• How do we help middle school students solve equations if they don't know what it means to divide?  
• Better yet, in elementary school, how can we teach these concepts so that students develop an understanding early on?  

This online course is for teachers who want to understand student multiplicative reasoning - how students make their own mathematical distinctions when reasoning with multiple contexts for multiplication and division - and how to help students move beyond repeated addition early, instead of too late.

The design of a Massive Online Open Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed) allows the flexibility to participate at times that work with your schedule.  If you want to participate with other Johnston County teachers in a county-wide PLC with face-to-face discussions, which will provide some structure and vertical conversations around the topics, we're offering that option.  

Our first meeting will be an information session, and we'll discuss the structure of our meetings.  This will be held March 20 from 3:30 - 5:00in the Glenn Building Team Room.  If you want to find out more about the MOOC-Ed and are interested in this face-to-face participation, please let Leanne Daughtry (leannedaughtry@johnston.k12.nc.us) know and plan on attending to find out more.  Please forward this to others you think may be interested in this opportunity.      

For more information and to register, you can visit the course site:  https://courses.mooc-ed.org/dvm1  

Update:  The course will now run from April 7, 2014 - May 26, 2014.  New content will be made available weekly (scroll down to the schedule after logging in to find the available course material).   

a) Schedule:  The course runs asynchronously which allows participation at any time and in any place where you have access to the internet.  Course content will remain available through June, in order to allow for greater flexibility in your schedule.

b) Available Now: Learning Trajectory and Common Core Background material is available now!  Feel free to peruse this background material if you would like to learn more about Learning Trajectories and/or the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.  

c) Forums: Log in to the course, introduce yourself in the Forum, and get connected to colleagues around the country.