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Virginia School Consortium for Learning

Big Concepts with Our Littlest Learners: Moving from Concrete to Pictorial to Abstract

Teachers: Grades preK-2,  Special Education Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Administrators

Thursday, January 9, 2025
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Presented by:
    Kateri Thunder
  • Registration Fee (Members):
    $160
  • Registration Fee (Non-Member):
    $199
  • Type of Workshop:
    On-Site Workshop - In Person Only
  • Location:
    Albemarle County Public Schools Professional Development Spaces
    1180 Seminole Trail, Suite 385
    Charlottesville, VA 22901

Workshop Details

Big ideas and complex concepts in math and literacy are accessible to our youngest learners. To make sense of big concepts, we begin with familiar, concrete objects, next translate these into images, and then connect these with language. Throughout we engage in playful learning that is empowering, meaningful, and joyful. Come explore manipulatives that bring to life big math and literacy concepts. We'll experience ways to move from concrete to pictorial to abstract with big ideas, including phonological awareness, letter knowledge, number sense, measurement, algebraic and geometric reasoning, and writing.

In this workshop, we are learning ways to move from concrete to pictorial to abstract so that our youngest learners have the opportunity and access to make sense of big math and literacy concepts. Participants will be able to:

  • Describe how and why moving from familiar concrete objects to images to language is an effective strategy for scaffolding all learners, including EL and learners with special needs.
  • Experience this method to help young learners make sense of and develop skills in early math and literacy.
  • Envision implementing the concrete-pictorial-abstract method in our early childhood classrooms.

Recertification Certificate

Recertification Certificates (6 points) will be given at the end of the PD workshop series after completion of an electronic exit survey.

Audience

Teachers: Grades preK-2,  Special Education Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Administrators

Presenter

Kateri Thunder

Kateri Thunder, PH.D has the pleasure of collaborating with learners and educators from school divisions around the world to translate research into practice. Previously, Kateri served as an inclusive, early childhood educator, an Upward Bound educator, a mathematics specialist, an assistant professor of mathematics education at James Madison University, and a Site Director for the Central Virginia Writing Project. Kateri

researches, writes, and presents on equity and access in education and the intersection of literacy and mathematics for teaching and learning. She has partnered with thousands of educators to catalyze change in their classrooms and schools. Kateri is co- creator of The Math Diet and a best-selling author of Corwin’s Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Classroom Series, the Success Criteria Playbook, Visible Learning in Early Childhood, and The Early Childhood Education Playbook. Kateri can be reached at mathplusliteracy.com

Workshop Series Cost

The workshop fee is $160 for each participant who is a member of a school division that is a member of VaSCL. You can check here for member divisions.

The registration fee for participants from Non-Member school divisions is $199.

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If payment is not made by credit card/PayPal account at registration, the person whom you identified as the Billing Contact will be sent an invoice for payment of your registration fee.

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Refund Policy

VaSCL has a no refund policy for workshop registrations.

If a participant is unable to attend the workshop please let Alison Dwier-Selden (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) know as soon as possible.

We are happy to allow a substitute to attend in your place. Allison will need to know the person’s name and email address for confirmation.

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Big Concepts with Our Littlest Learners: Moving from Concrete to Pictorial to Abstract
January 09, 2025
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Albemarle County Public Schools Professional Development Spaces - 1180 Seminole Trail, Suite 385
Charlottesville, VA 22901
160.00
199.00