Broward: Upcoming Parent Trainings

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This is for your information and to share with others!! Thanks for your time. Ruth

*SATURDAY*

January 23, 2010

(9:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.)

(11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)

Lunch on your own.

(12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

Cost: $10.00 Registration Fee for refreshments (check or money order made out to: School Board of Broward County)

Hands-On Math Workshop: Primary Level

Making Math Easy-to-Do in K-2

Working with materials easily located in your home, participants will experience activities that will simplify difficult math concepts. We will explore…

· Activities that make counting forwards, backwards, by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s, a simple task.

· Positions along a place value chart: thousands, hundreds, tens,

· Terms that means addition vs. terms that indicate subtraction

· Difficult concept like regrouping in addition and subtraction

· Money, money, money

· Making time a snap

· Enter the world of macaroni, magnetic letters, clocks, play-dough and rulers to learn about time, number sequence and money

· Boost student achievement through understanding the concept instead of rote memorization

Hands-On Math Workshop: Intermediate Level

Brain-Based Math Activities that Excite Every Learner

Working with materials easily located in your home, every participant will explore hands-on activities that help your child understand…

· Numbers in standard, word, and expanded form

· Place values to the billions

· Measurement through music and movement

· Fractions, fractions, more equivalent fractions

· Elapsed time based on television schedules

· How to weigh objects in metric and customary units

· How to shop until you drop to learn about money and play in the backyard with clocks for elapsed time concepts

· Boost student achievement through understanding the concept instead of rote memorization

· And just generally have fun with math from now through middle school!

Presenter: , Writemath Enterprises, Inc., Valrico, FL

Nova Southeastern Univ. (Health Professions Div. Assembly Building, Room 2105 Hull Aud.)

3200 S. University Drive

Davie, FL 33328

Follow the ESE Parent Workshop signs to locate the meeting room.

*SATURDAY*

January 30, 2010

(9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

Cost: $10.00 Registration Fee for refreshments (check or money order made out to: School Board of Broward County)

Helping My Child with Homework and Study Skills

This interactive workshop for parents will discuss why homework is important and also will describe typical problems that students have that interfere with homework completion. The primary focus will be on strategies that parents can use to help their children complete homework assignments accurately and on time..

Presenter: Marjorie Montague, PhD

University of Miami

Nova Southeastern Univ. (Health Professions Div. Assembly Building, Room 2105 Hull Aud.)

3200 S. University Drive

Davie, FL 33328

Follow the ESE Parent Workshop signs to locate the meeting room.

Ruth M. Rogge, M Ed

FDLRS Program Specialist-Parent Services, KCW 9th floor

ESE Department

Broward County School Board, 9th floor

600 SE Third Avenue

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33301

Phone#

ESE Parent Education Workshops http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/studentsupport/ese/html/WORKSHOP.htm

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