Professional Learning

These professional learning courses are provided by EduPaths. To get started, please visit the links to each course to enroll. If you need help with an EduPaths course, please email: edupaths@gomaisa.org.

Essential 2 - Promoting Positive Math Identities: Case Study This module is designed for teachers to consider more deeply how math classroom norms and routines affect the development of math identities by considering the cases of two Michigan youths. You'll also examine one Michigan teacher's approach to supporting the building of positive, robust math identities in her third-grade classroom. Here we go! View Course

Essential 2 - Promoting Positive Math Identities: Foundations This course connects classroom norms to the promotion of positive, robust math identities in the second essential instructional practice for PK - 5 math instruction. Review the course overview which outlines the content and goals for learning. Then thoughtfully engage with the course's content, including all videos, activities, and reflection prompts. Full engagement is necessary to maximize learning and fully support you in your work to enhance how children learn to use, understand, and do mathematics using a strengths-based approach. Let’s begin! View Course

Essential 6 - Number Sense Routines: Case Study This course is constructed around a classroom case of implementation. You'll examine the case of a Michigan PK - 5 teacher using a number sense routine with her students, hear from the teacher as she debriefs the experience, and listen to commentary from Drs. Emily Bouck and Elham Kazemi as they also help you understand how to promote success for all students during number sense routines. Here we go! View Course

Essential 6 - Number Sense Routines: Foundations This course outlines number sense routines, the sixth essential instructional practice for PK - 5 math instruction. Review the course overview which outlines the content and goals for learning. Then carefully and thoughtfully engage with the course's content, including all videos, activities, and reflection prompts. Full engagement is needed to maximize learning and fully support you in your work to enhance how children learn to use, understand, and do mathematics using a strengths-based approach. Are you ready? View Course

Introduction to the Vision of Early Mathematics in Michigan This course is foundational for learning about the Early Math Essential Instructional Practices. It provides a history of the development of the Early Math Essential values in practices for the state of Michigan. Review the course overview which lays out the content and goals for the course. Then carefully and thoughtfully engage with the course's content including each video, activity, and reflection prompt. Full engagement will maximize learning and fully support you in your work to enhance the ways that children learn to use, understand, and do mathematics using a strengths-based approach. View Course

Math Essentials: Practice 2 - Promoting Positive Math Identities: Establishing Norms This course introduces teachers to the importance of norms in early mathematics classrooms, which is part of the second essential instructional practice for PK-5 math instruction. Review the course overview which outlines the content and goals for learning. Then thoughtfully engage with the course's content, including all videos, activities, and reflection prompts. Full engagement is necessary to maximize learning and fully support you in your work to enhance how children learn to use, understand, and do mathematics using a strengths-based approach. Let’s begin! View Course

Math Essentials: Teacher Beliefs and Values: Case Study This course is designed for teachers to peek into a classroom and look for evidence of the five core values. You'll examine the case of a Michigan PK - 5 classroom and look for evidence of the five core values being realized. Grab your reflective journal and away we go! View Course

Math Essentials: Teacher Beliefs and Values: Foundations This course explores the origins of and the connection between teacher beliefs and values. Teachers must understand their beliefs and values because they are consequential for enacting their teaching practice. Please review the course overview, which outlines the content and goals for the course. Then carefully and thoughtfully engage with the course's content, including engaging with all videos, activities, and reflection prompts. View Course

Essential 5 - Cognitively Demanding Mathematical Tasks: Foundations This course outlines cognitively demanding mathematics tasks which is the fifth essential instructional practice for PK - 3 math instruction. Teachers will carefully and thoughtfully engage through videos, interactive activities, and reflection prompts. Full engagement is needed to maximize learning about what a cognitively demanding task is, how to select cognitively demanding tasks, and how to characterize math tasks by cognitive demand. Completion of this course will support teachers in their work to enhance the ways that children learn to use, understand, and do mathematics using a strengths-based approach. View Course

Essential 5 - Cognitively Demanding Mathematical Tasks: Case #1 This course is constructed around a classroom case of implementation of a cognitively demanding task. Teachers will examine the case of a Michigan PK - 3 teacher using a math task with her students, hear from the teacher as she debriefs the experience, and listen to commentary from Dr. Edward Silver as he also helps teachers understand what they have observed. View Course

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