Math: Diagnosis, Disabilities and Math Intervention, Summer 2019

Note: Course payment or purchase order of $950, payable to CASTLETON UNIVERSITY, is due at the time of registration. A purchase order number can be entered into the online registration form. Please mail the check to: Financial & Registration Services, Castleton University, 62 Alumni Drive, Castleton, VT 05735. To help us ensure that your payment is applied to the correct course, PLEASE WRITE “CFS” IN THE CHECK MEMO LINE. Thank you.

Course Description

Participants will examine and define math learning difficulties and disabilities in students, and determine intervention strategies for students struggling with mathematics. Topics for investigation and a starting place for resources in three areas follow research in math disabilities; Universal screening and diagnosis, and Assessment and Diagnosis of Mathematics Learning Problems / Disabilities; and Programs that address learning difficulties in math. How math instruction will change based on the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics will be a focus. This course will benefit K-12 teachers of mathematics and special educators. The course will be targeted based on participant needs and interest.

Course Objectives/Goals

Enduring Understandings:

• Teachers understand how learners grow and develop (VT Standard 1).
• Teachers can use individual differences to ensure inclusive learning environments (VT Standard 2).
• Teachers work in teams to support individual and collaborative learning (VT Standard 3).
• Teachers understand the central concepts, tools of inquiry and structures of the discipline(s) he or she teaches (VT Standard 4).
• Teachers understand how to connect concepts to engage learners (VT Standard 5).
• Teachers use multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth (VT Standard 6).
• Teachers plan instruction to support all learners (VT Standard 7).
• Teachers use multiple ways to encourage learners (VT Standard 8).
• Teachers evaluate and reflect on their practice (VT Standard 9).
• Teachers collaborate with others to ensure learner growth (VT Standard 10).

Essential Questions:

• Who is the struggling math learner?
• Why is learning mathematics so difficult for so many learners?
• How can I identify the struggling math learner?
• How can I support the struggling math learner?

Content:

• Examine cognitive processing challenges
• Frameworks for Understanding Student thinking
• Develop intervention strategies and structures to support struggling learners

Skills:

• Identify areas of processing for math students and where breakdowns may occur
• Identify intervention and differentiation strategies for struggling math students

Required Texts

Costs, if any, for required texts are not included in the course tuition:

Abeel, Samantha My Thirteenth Winter. 2003.

Tapper, John Solving for Why: Understanding, Assessing and Teaching Students Who
Struggle with Math, 2012

Common Core Mathematics Standards

Additional works supplied via PDF

For additional course information

Beth Adreon

(802) 779-8214

For additional registration information

Bethany Sprague
(802) 468-1325

Register online now!