Math Webinars
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Members of the DLD executive board are very exited about collaborating with the Council for Exceptional Children in offering a series of Webinars on improving instruction in mathematics. Paul Riccomini, DLD's current president, and Bradley Witzel, former president of the South Carolina chapter of DLD, will be presenting during three sessions in which participants will learn about evidence-based instruction to overcome impediments to success in mathematics for students, including those with learning disabilities.
For too many students, schools provide inadequate preparation in arithmetic concepts and skills that lead up to algebra. As a result, the level of abstraction and complexity that students encounter in algebra overwhelms them, and their teachers are stuck with students who quickly quit trying. The Webinar sessions are designed to provide specific content and strategies, based on scientific evidence, about content and instructional methods for preventing and correcting these problems.
CEC arranges these sessions so that groups can register as one, so you and your colleagues can pay one fee and all participate. As a part of registration, which simply requires a computer with an Internet connection and a telephone, you can listen in on the presentation, receive the materials (including a copy afterwards), and ask questions. Closed captioning is available.
Professors Riccomini (The Pennsylvania State University) and Witzel (Winthrop University) both have extensive experience as classroom teachers as well as researchers. In addition to having taught algebra to students with and without disabilities, they are published authors in the arithmetic-mathematics area. Learn more about them and the sessions by visiting the CEC Web site devoted to the Webinars: The Arithmetic-to-Algebra Gap.
To register for the individual sessions, go to these links (note that each one will no longer function as of 11 PM the day before the scheduled date):