Teachers volunteer for math boot camp

School may be out for the summer for students, but it was back to the classroom for New Richmond Exempted Village School District’s intermediate elementary math teachers this week.

The math teachers spent the first three days of their summer vacation attending a voluntary unpaid Fraction Boot Camp to prepare for the new state and federal math standards.
 

New Richmond Exempted Village School District math coach Barb Weidus

conducts Fraction Boot Camp for district math teachers who volunteered for the

3-day unpaid training.

 “Fraction Boot Camp is a professional development program designed to prepare intermediate math teachers for changes in math instruction included in the new Common Core State Standards,” explained John Frye, director of pupil and staff services for the NREVSD.

Fraction Boot Camp is being conducted by Barbara Weidus, an education consultant hired by the Board of Education as the district math coach for the 2012-13 school year as part of the district’s emphasis on professional development for its teaching staff.
  

NREVSD teachers (from left) Kelly Gabriel, Kely Heckard and Dianne Keuhner

take notes during Fraction Boot Camp designed to prepare teachers for

the new Common Core math standards.

“Changes in the alignment of standards at grade levels has moved the introduction and mastery of fractions, decimals, and percentage, including additional, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions, equivalent fractions to grades 3 through 6,” explained Frye.

Volunteering for the 3-day training program were Erin Parker, Michele Jackson, Todd Jackson and Kelly Gabriel from Locust Corner Elementary; Karen Cahall, Kelly Heckard and Dianne Kuehner from New Richmond Elementary; and Elaine Ellis, Margaret Allen, Elizabeth Florea and Kelly Dunham from Monroe Elementary.