1. Instruction for Students Struggling with Math
Webinar Presenters
Richard Lombardo
Christy Sampson-Kelly
Kat Crawford

2. Best Practices and Struggling Math Learners
Christy Sampson-Kelly, Ph.D.
Director of Practitioner Support

3. Effective Strategies Special Education Students Low-Achieving Students
Systematic & Explicit Instruction
Student Think-Alouds
Visual & Graphic Depictions
Low-Achieving Students
Peer-Assisted Learning
Systematic & Explicit Instruction
Formative Assessment Data
Instructional Strategy
1. Visual and graphic depictions of problems – visual & graphic organizers: specific and practiced; manipulatives: to support students in moving from concrete to representational to abstract concepts and operations
2. Systematic and explicit instruction
3. Student think- alouds: students verbalize their thinking (small pic of kid talking)
4. Use of structured peer-assisted learning activities involving heterogeneous ability groupings (pic of group of kids working collaboratively)
5. repeat
6. Formative assessment data provided directly to students: (pic of a chart)
Effect Size for Special Education Students
0.50 Moderate
1.19 Large
0.98 Large
0.42 Moderate
0.32 Small to Moderate
0.33 Small to Moderate
Effect Size for Low- Achieving Students NA
0.58 Moderate to Large
NA 0.62 Large
0.51 Moderate
0.57 Moderate to Large
NCTM (2009)

4. Systematic & Explicit Instruction
Elicits, Monitors & Provides Feedback
5-Step Lesson Plan
3 Big Ideas
Scholar Responses
Systematic
Critical Content
Scholar responses – elicit them, monitor them, provide feedback (corrective as well as reinforcing)
Critical Content – assess: what do my scholars know, instruction in necessary skills, problem solving strategy instruction, skills, strategies, concepts and vocabulary that empower students
Systematic: 5 step LP, lessons are organized and focused, begin with a statement of goals, provide interactive review of reskills and knowledge, provide step by step demonstration & appropriate practice
Skills, Strategies, Concepts & Vocabulary

5. Checking for Understanding
5-Step Lesson Plan
Starting Your Class
Anticipatory Set
a. Focus Learners
b. State Objective
c. Connect Prior Knowledge
I do
Group Mini-Lesson
a. Direct Teach
b. Model
We do
Guided Practice
a. Scaffold
b. Monitor
You do
Independent Practice
Caution!
Classwork
Homework
Closing Your Class
Closure
Review
Assessment
Evaluation
Preview
My narrative essential questions to be answered.
Checking for Understanding
Teacher
Responsibility