All elementary teachers need to understand the depth of importance of teaching place value.  This new class by Kim goes to the heart of the area students are weakest---place value!  You will come away with a deep understanding of how to teach place value effectively, how to motivate students and practical strategies that you can use tomorrow in your classroom.  Kim Sutton’s years as an educator bring a world of experience to her seminars along with content knowledge that helps every teacher teach the concepts more effectively. 

This class will clarify place value and how to teach it!  You will receive countless strategies including ready-to-go centers for easy-to-implement levels of competency.  You will experience songs, dances, literature, games and activities to fill the gaps that exist on place value in the math textbooks.  All the modeled games and activities will be using whole numbers and decimals.

Kim Sutton’s own brand of motivational strategies are infectious and you will gain new ways to generate enthusiasm for learning mathematics with your students.  You will also see practical and meaningful classroom management strategies throughout the seminar. 

Participants need to bring scissors, markers, scotch tape, an individual hole punch, stapler and staples.