Holiday break is just one week away, and I am sure all of you are ready for it! Before you head to break, I just wanted to give you a heads up to AVMR opportunities that will be offered in the new year since some of you have been asking.
In the School District of Waukesha, we have been training teachers in Add+VantageMR since 2015. During that time, many teachers have experienced the value of learning more about numeracy development in students and how to better facilitate learning. This year we will be offering AVMR Course 1, AVMR Course 2 and AVMR Fractions. Each of these courses may be taken for no credits and a stipend of $350.00, taken for 1 credit and $175 stipend, or for 2 credits and no stipend. These credits do count toward the new teacher credits that are required in your first few years in SDW.
All AVMR courses will be held from 4:15 - 6:45pm. Please note that in AVMR Course 1 and Course 2, one semester will be face-to-face and one semester will be virtual. The virtual set up for all of the AVMR classes is both synchronous and asynchronous. AVMR fractions will be a combination - some of the meetings will be virtual and others face-to-face, but the timing will be determined with the participants.
Please sign up now to indicate your interest on the Google Form. Some of you signed up for the courses at the beginning of the year, but if you do not remember, feel free to sign up again so that we include you!
Below you will also find a list of proposed TDPs centered around AVMR for the 2022-2023 school year.
AVMR Trainings:
AVMR Course 1 involves teachers learning about Add+VantageMR assessments and focusing on a continuum of learning in relation to the Learning Framework in Number. Teachers learn to use a series of three assessments to develop a profile of number knowledge for children: number words and numerals, structuring, and addition and subtraction. The profile then assists teachers in making informed instructional decisions to advance students' knowledge and skills.
AMVR Course 2 is a continuation of the numeracy continuum of learning in regards to the Learning Framework in Number. You will learn about place value and multiplication/division assessments that can be administered to your neediest students to know exactly where they are in their numeracy development so you can make instructional decisions that will help to move the students along in their learning. To sign up for this course, you need to have completed AVMR Course 1.
AVMR Fractions Course
Developing Fractions Knowledge by Amy Hackenberg, Anderson Norton, and Robert Wright serves as the course text and provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to classroom and intervention teaching of fractions. This course combines online learning with team meetings. The teaching approach for this course relies heavily on working with students and then observing and documenting students' mathematical activity and thinking. Instructional sequences take into account detailed information about students' current levels of knowledge, as well as how students reorganize their ways of working with whole numbers in order to meaningfully work with fractions. Anyone can sign up for the Fractions course - it is recommended that you have completed AVMR Course 1 and 2 before signing up for this course, but not required.
TDP AVMR Courses:
The following TDP course will be offered that connects to AVMR, if there is enough interest. You can show your interest in the Google Form below, and then you will need to sign up for the TDP course when Sara Orcholski sends out the monthly courses.
If you are interested in participating in any of these learning opportunities, please fill out
this Google Form and indicate your choices now.
