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Overview of STEPS Professional Development
Courses and Resource Books
STEPS Professional Development provides teachers, schools, and
districts with a range of comprehensive and highly practical professional
development courses based on award winning teacher resource books.
Each course is specifically crafted to help participants take
on the various roles of a PRESENTER, COACH, LEADER, or USER.
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Mathematics (Grades K-9) |
First Steps in Mathematics
Helping teachers to identify and correct students’ misconceptions
about mathematics.
Based on cutting-edge research, First Steps in Mathematics
develops and expands teachers’ understanding of mathematics
and how children learn mathematics. First Steps in Mathematics
enables teachers to successfully diagnose, plan, implement,
and evaluate their students’ learning experiences in four
strands - Number, Measurement, Space, and Chance and Data.
Diagnostic Tasks and Diagnostic Maps within each strand help
teachers to identify students’ misconceptions about mathematics.
Sample lessons and learning activities provide teachers with
practical and simple ideas to support students’ development.
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Revealing What Students Think – Diagnostic Tasks for Fractional Numbers
Revealing What Students Think presents thirty, easy to use Diagnostic Tasks designed to reveal what students really think and understand about fractions.
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Elementary Literacy (Grades
K-5) |
First Steps Literacy 2nd Edition
Helping teachers address current literacy challenges
in reading, writing, and speaking & listening.
First Steps Literacy 2nd Edition builds on the original
First Steps by drawing upon contemporary research to help
teachers address current literacy challenges. It provides
teachers with comprehensive Maps of Development that help
them assess and monitor student needs and also provides explicit
links to purposeful teaching and learning experiences. First Steps Literacy 2nd Edition includes detailed support material
that will enhance learning and help teachers build effective
literacy classrooms.
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Secondary Literacy (Grades 6-12) |
STEPS Middle and High School Literacy
Helping students learn subject matter in all content
areas through effective reading strategies.
Steps Middle and High School Literacy provides content
area teachers with a selection of powerful teaching ideas
and tools that help secondary students build a repertoire
of reading and learning strategies. Using these strategies
students meet the reading demands and learn content in all
courses. Steps Middle and High School Literacy also explores
the reading process, making it more tangible for content
area teachers and their students.
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