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GUIDED MATH Practical Strategies to Differentiate Your Math Instruction Using Small Group Instruction and Math Learning Centers

(Grades K‑2)

Seminar Presented by Dr. Nicki NewtonOutstanding Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Classroom Teachers, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Math Specialists, Administrators, and Other Educators Teaching Math in Grades K‑2hh Practical, timesaving strategies for planning, organizing, implementing, and managing guided math groups in your classroomhh Innovative, hands‑on, interactive small group activities that meet the diverse needs of your students and increase their understanding and proficiency in mathhh Motivating, easy‑to‑implement math learning center ideas that reinforce students’ skills while you work with guided math groupshh Outstanding instructional strategies and quick energizers that build students’ confidence and understanding in mathhh Receive an extensive math resource handbook filled with dozens of innovative guided math teaching strategies, center ideas and manageable activities to promote your students’ math skills

NICKI NEWTON will show you how to implement guided math using your current math curriculum and how to create and manage engaging, rigorous, standards‑based math centers for the rest of your class while you work with your guided math groups.

Great seminar! A lot of practical content! I can’t wait to implement these ideas in the classroom. Dr. Nicki is a wealth of information!”

− Courtney MollMan, Kindergarten teaCher

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Ten Key Benefits of Attending 1. Learn Practical Strategies to Implement Guided Math Groups

Discover classroom‑proven techniques and valuable tools to create, implement and manage guided math groups in your own classroom … Timesaving tips for making guided math one of your most powerful teaching techniques

2. Utilize Your Existing Math Curriculum in Guided Math GroupsExplore how to use guided math groups with the curriculum and materials you are currently using … See multiple ways you can use guided math to re‑teach and reinforce the math your students need to learn

3. Differentiate Your Math Instruction the Most Effective WaySee how guided math groups enable you to more easily differentiate your instruction to meet the diverse needs of your students … Specific, manageable techniques to build students’ confidence and competence in math

4. Discover Innovative Ways to Use Math Manipulatives in Small GroupsExplore a variety of guided math group activities that use manipulatives as powerful tools … Fresh ideas to actively involve your students in learning and make sense of the math they are doing

5. Facilitate Powerful “Math Talk” in Guided Math GroupsDiscover highly effective strategies to engage your students in “public” thinking about math … How to question, probe and justify their thoughts in the safe, encouraging environment of guided math groups

6. What to Do with the Rest of Your Class While You Meet with Guided Math GroupsStep‑by‑step techniques to create and manage engaging, standards‑based, differentiated math learning centers … Proven ideas that are motivating, fun and provide your students with valuable opportunities to sustain their learning

7. Explore Great Games and Scaffolded OrganizersEngage your students in those “just right” activities that will positively influence their feelings about math and motivate them to learn … Discover differentiated games and scaffolded organizers to keep them involved and excited about mathematics

8. Discover Creative Ways to Review and Re‑teach Math ConceptsLearn multiple ways to reinforce the skills you have taught during whole group instruction … How to make guided math groups a powerful tool to strengthen student learning

9. Tips, Tools and Instantly Usable Ideas for Creating Your Math CentersHighly effective strategies for setting up manageable math learning centers … Creative, engaging activities you can use to reinforce and assess student progress in math

10. Receive an Extensive Math Resource HandbookEach participant will receive a valuable resource handbook containing ready‑to‑use activities, techniques and materials with guided math groups and learning centers. All ideas are designed specifically for grades K‑2 and can be implemented immediately in your own classroom

Practical Ideas and Strategies

In this highly practical seminar, NICKI NEWTON will share a wealth of ideas for creating, organizing, implementing, managing, and assessing guided math groups. She will explore in depth how to use guided math groups to effectively address the diverse needs of your students, including those who struggle with math, those who are ready for enrichment, your English language learners, as well as those who are working right at grade level.

Nicki will show you how to implement guided math using your current math curriculum and how to create and manage engaging, rigorous, standards‑based math centers for the rest of the class while you work with your guided math groups.

Whether you are teaching in a self‑contained classroom, a math classroom, or a resource program, you will find Nicki’s ideas to be practical, innovative and academically rich. Even better, you will be given multiple, proven techniques to help all your students build the math confidence and savvy they need to become successful in mathematics. You will leave this outstanding seminar with renewed enthusiasm about teaching math as well as a wealth of ideas for implementing guided math in your own classroom.

To Register, Call Toll‑Free

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Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

hh Practical, timesaving techniques to organize, implement and manage guided math groups

hh Sample guided math lesson formats in each of the 5 NCTM content areas

hh Tips for using guided math groups with your current math curriculum and materials

hh Highly effective ways to use guided math groups to re‑teach and reinforce the math your students need to learn

hh Specific ways to differentiate math instruction to meet the diverse needs of your students

hh How to use engaging, high‑interest, motivating activities that build math confidence and competence

hh Innovative techniques to use math manipulatives in small groups

hh Instantly usable tips for facilitating powerful “math talk” in guided math groups

hh Key ideas for creating and managing differentiated, standards‑based, engaging math learning centers

hh Powerful games and scaffolded organizers that allow your students to engage in “just right” math activities

hh Creative ideas for strengthening students’ math concepts using guided math groups

hh How to implement a balanced approach to assessment that enables you to focus guided math groups on the skills your students need most

hh Manageable ways to meet the needs of all your students through guided math groups

hh Proven math center activities that reinforce student learning

hh Strategies to build number sense and computational fluency through the use of cooperative math activities

hh Creative, fun ways to review math concepts and keep them fresh in students’ minds

hh Powerful questioning techniques that promote problem solving

hh A wealth of ready‑to‑use ideas to make your guided math groups highly effective

A wealth of information and practical ideas! Thank you!”

− Clare BillinghaM, Bilingual teaCher

Bureau of Education & Research915 118th Avenue SE • PO Box 96068 • Bellevue, WA 98009-9668Phone (800) 735-3503 • Fax (425) 453-1134 • www.ber.org

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A Message From Seminar Leader,

Nicki NewtonDear Colleague:

As teachers, we are well aware that “traditional” whole‑class math instruction alone is not sufficient to address the needs of all of our students. While some students are on page 91 in this year’s math text, others seem to be on page 91 in last year’s book. In today’s climate of accountability, we need a model that enables us to meet the diverse needs of all of our students, while motivating them with manageable instructional strategies and practical, effective activities. Guided math is exactly the kind of model that enables us to do this! It allows teachers to meet with small groups of students for engaging, differentiated, standards‑based instruction that is targeted at the specific needs of each group. Even better, it fosters confidence and quickly builds the math skills each student needs to succeed.

It is my pleasure to share a wealth of proven ideas for creating, organizing, implementing, and managing highly successful guided math groups. You will receive specific techniques, instantly usable ideas and timesaving ways to use guided math groups with your current math curriculum and materials. You will see how effective these groups can be in meeting the diverse needs of your students, giving them the specific instruction and encouragement they need and getting them excited about learning mathematics. I strongly feel that using guided math groups enables me to make every child feel confident while making math comprehensible, engaging and fun.

And the rest of the class? They, too, are engaged in meaningful math activities through stimulating, differentiated math centers. I will give you a wealth of ideas for setting up centers where students work together as well as independently, engage in purposeful practice and laugh and learn their way to mathematical fluency.

I look forward to having you join me for an exciting, worthwhile, teacher‑friendly seminar that will enable you to immediately start using guided math groups in your own classroom. In addition to sharing fresh, motivating ideas for setting up guided math groups and powerful math learning centers, I will give you dozens of games, math projects and practical, rigorous, ready‑to‑use activities that you can implement immediately in your own classroom.

Please join me for an exciting day of practical, proven, “right back to your classroom” ideas that will support you and each of your students as you begin to tap into the instructional power of guided math groups.

Sincerely,

Nicki Newton

P.S. You will leave this seminar inspired, enthusiastic and ready to implement guided math groups in your own classroom. And, you will have a toolkit full of practical, ready‑to‑use, engaging activities, innovative ideas and scaffolded templates to get started immediately.

In addition to sharing fresh, motivating ideas for setting up guided math groups and powerful math learning centers, I will give you dozens of games, math projects and practical, rigorous, ready‑to‑use activities that you can implement immediately in your own classroom.”

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Uniquely Qualified Instructor

DR. NICKI NEWTON is a dynamic presenter who is passionate about helping teachers meet the diverse math needs of their students. With over 20 years of experience as a classroom teacher and math consultant, she has worked extensively with regular and special education students, bilingual and ELL students, classroom teachers, and math coaches. Nicki knows the challenges and rewards of working with students who have widely diverse needs in mathematics and she has seen remarkable improvement in student learning when using guided math groups and math learning centers.

Nicki provides practical, effective strategies for planning, organizing, implementing, and managing guided math groups and her presentations are firmly grounded in research‑based, teacher‑friendly techniques to meet the needs of today’s math learners. In addition to presenting seminars, setting up math lab sites and developing instantly usable ways to differentiate math instruction through guided math groups and math learning centers, she is the author of GUIDED MATH: Practical Strategies to Differentiate Your Math Instruction Using Small Group Instruction and Math Learning Centers (Grades K‑2), the resource handbook each participant will receive at this seminar.

Nicki’s presentations are lively and interactive with practical tips you can use immediately in your own math instruction. You will leave this fast‑paced seminar with a wealth of ideas to implement highly effective guided math groups and math learning centers in your own classroom.

What Your Colleagues Say About Nicki Newton

“Outstanding! Nicki has a wealth of ideas for teaching math to young children!” − Betty Hogan, 2nd Grade Teacher

“This seminar was amazing! There were so many great ideas and resources!” − Kristin Bretz, 1st Grade Teacher

“This is a great seminar! There is so much valuable information I will be able to utilize in my classroom!” − Ginene Pointer, Teacher

“Nicki’s personality put us at ease and made us comfortable. She did a beautiful job explaining the activities and telling us how to differentiate them!”

− Amy Lee, 2nd Grade Teacher

“This was an extremely useful seminar! The activities Nicki presented were easy to follow and can be taken back to the classroom and used immediately.”

− Kathy Richards, Kindergarten Teacher

“Thank you for a very enlightening seminar! I had fun and learned so much. I’m excited about teaching math!” − Stephanie Howell, 1st Grade Teacher

“Lots of great ideas I can use right away! Thank you, Nicki!”− Maureen Lotti, 1st Grade Teacher

“A wonderful seminar! I really learned things I can put in place now. Very useful!” − Sharon Burns, 1st Grade Teacher

“This was an excellent presentation. Thank you, Nicki, for all the ideas I can take back to my classroom!” − Soheila Ahmad, 1st Grade Teacher

“I loved the activities and books you shared with us! I learned so much about guided math and how to implement it!” − Kerri Spaulding, 1st Grade Teacher

“Great seminar! I came away with a lot of great ideas and useful things to make math fun in my classroom! Thanks!” − Sue Dent, Kindergarten Teacher

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Can’t Attend?A related BER seminar, Practical Strategies to Differentiate Your Math Instruction Using Small Groups, Centers and Whole Group Instruction (Grades K‑3), presented by another math expert, Deborah Wirth, is available on CDs with a comprehensive resource handbook at a cost of $99.00 plus $9.00 shipping and handling. To order, call toll‑free 1‑800‑735‑3503 (Stock #A‑MUW‑1541) or use the order form on the back page.

A related On Demand Video‑Based Online Learning course, Using Guided Math to Strengthen Students’ Math Learning, for Grades K‑2, is available for immediate purchase. To enroll, visit www.ber.org/onlinelearning.

Special Benefits of AttendingYou’ll Receive an Extensive Resource HandbookEach participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Key ideas and specific tips for setting up and managing guided math groups

• Detailed components of strong guided math group lessons

• A variety of differentiated, scaffolded math templates for valuable activities across the 5 NCTM content areas

• Ready‑to‑use assessment ideas, including surveys, questionnaires, checklists, and quizzes

• Dozens of differentiated games and activities to build conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in guided math groups

• Highly practical, innovative ideas for math center activities that provide rigorous, engaging, student‑centered sustained practice for your students

• An Action Plan Template you can use immediately to map out your plan for guided math groups

Consultation AvailableNicki Newton will be available to answer questions regarding the unique needs of your own math program.

Semester Credit OptionOne graduate level professional development credit is available with an additional fee and completion of

a follow‑up practicum project. Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at the seminar.

Meet Inservice RequirementsAt the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.

The best presentation I have ever attended! Very easy to follow, with great ideas that can be implemented quickly.”

− Myra StinSon, Self‑Contained K‑3 teaCher

GUIDED MATH Practical Strategies to Differentiate Your Math Instruction Using Small

Group Instruction and Math Learning Centers

(Grades K‑2)

RESoURCE HAnDBooK

by Dr. nicki newton

Bureau of Education & Research

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Who Should AttendClassroom Teachers, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Math Specialists, Administrators, and Other Educators Teaching Math in Grades K‑2.

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Registration (MUN5S1) 1. Anaheim (Buena Park), CA – March 11, 2015 2. Dallas (Arlington), TX – February 26, 2015 3. Houston, TX – February 24, 2015 4. New Orleans (Metairie), LA – February 23, 2015 5. Oklahoma City, OK – February 27, 2015 6. Oxnard, CA – March 10, 2015 7. Pasadena (Arcadia), CA – March 9, 2015 8. Sacramento (Elk Grove), CA – March 12, 2015 9. San Antonio, TX – February 25, 2015 10. San Jose (Sunnyvale), CA – March 13, 2015

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GUIDED MATH Practical Strategies to Differentiate Your Math Instruction Using Small Group Instruction and Math Learning Centers (Grades K‑2)

GUIDED MATH Practical Strategies to Differentiate Your Math Instruction Using Small Group Instruction and Math Learning Centers (Grades K‑2)

Using GUIDED MATH to Strengthen

Your Students’ Math Achievement

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