Welcome!

Welcome to the Online Study of Fractions and Operations and how they progress through grades 3-5.

This workshops is designed to help you become more familiar with the instruction of Common Core Math Standards in the area of fractions and for you to be able to learn, share and collaborate with other teachers to better enable you to teach fractions.

Throughout this two week online study please feel free to share anything you have learned thus far and ask any and all questions so that everyone can learn together!

My name is Jessi Toepfer and I will be your facilitator for this online workshop. I currently work at O/N BOCES as the Math Specialist and I am here to help in any way I can.
My work contact information:  Jtoepfer@onboces.org      (716)-731-6800 ext. 3758
My email for this Blog is: Jccheer26@gmail.com
Please dont hesitate to contact me for anything that you may need!

The last date of this workshop is Sunday, March 13th, 2016. I will submit all certificates for 15 credit hours upon completion of all your posts by Monday, March 14th, 2016. If you have any required forms that need to be filled out for your district I will be happy to get those sent back to you ASAP. It is your professional responsibility to participate in the workshop to the best of your ability in order to receive the 15 credit hours of PD. I ask that you comment at least once on your own for each post I create and respond to a minimum of one other persons comment per post. 

To create a profile you can click on comment and choose to sign in as (Sign In) and this will also connect you through your Gmail account so that your name will be shown. Some tasks that we will be completing will be done through google docs and forms so having a Gmail account is important but you can create a Google Account using any email address.  (If you need any help creating a gmail account please let me know asap)
*School issued Gmail accounts are often blocked so you will have to use a personal Gmail Account

Please feel free to give any feedback to me throughout this course and there will be a final course evaluation given in order to help us better help you! Thank you in advance!
Jessi Toepfer

Introductions

Blog Conversations will all be done in this forum. In order to respond to my post you must comment at the bottom of the conversation. In order to reply to other people's comment you will hit "reply" under their comment.

To begin, please share with everyone your name, school district, title, background in education, experience thus far with Common Core Math and what you hope to accomplish by attending this online workshop.