TEACHER TALK 2025 - 2026

Teacher Talk Workshops - Let us know the topics that interest you! NY State teachers are eligible to receive CTLE hours for attending the workshop. These workshops are FREE.

Upcoming Teacher Talks

February12, 2026: Register Here

Christine KIng - Are You Ready for Online Testing?

Danielle Dargan - Mastering Fractions with Equality in Mind: Using Tools to Boost Confidence & Understanding

TJ Jemison - Fractions 101

March 19, 2026: Register Here


ATMNE 2024: Teaching Students to Think with AI in the Math Classroom

Session Summary: AI tools are valuable resources to build and extend student thinking. In this session, you'll explore how AI can deepen students' mathematical understanding through the use of creative prompts. This hands-on, computer-based, minds-on experience will immerse you in practical classroom applications of AI. AI novices are welcome!

Resources: Prompts for SlideDeck, Learning About AI, Links to ChaptGPT, Google Gemini

NCTM 2024 - Chicago

Session Summary: Looking to enhance your teaching strategies? If 'Turn and Talk' isn't sparking the discourse and engagement you desire, join this session. You'll experience four easy-to-implement, research-backed techniques that promote peer-to-peer justification, evaluation, and idea synthesis.

ATMNE 2024, NCTE-NCTM 2024 Conference: Letting Learners Lead through Upside Down Teaching

Session Summary: Have you ever heard of upside-down teaching? This teaching structure turns the "I do, we do, you do" teaching structure upside down so that students lead the learning. This session provides participants with a tested, authentic process for implementing an upside-down teaching structure that allows all students to tap into their prior knowledge, collaborate, and show you what they know.

Handout: Upside-down Teaching Structure

HMVAM 2024

Christine King
SCCTM 2022

Slide Deck: Using Math Manipulatives as Tools of Proof

Summary: Math manipulatives are often used as 'answer getting' tools. For example, when students are asked to show equivalent amounts to 3/4 using fraction bars, many students just match and see what fits. Are they thinking and developing a deep conceptual understanding of equivalence or are they just matching? This, handson session focuses on how to use readily available math manipulatives and materials in a way that fosters reasoning, justification, and flexible thinking. You will leave this session with a deeper understanding of how students at the upper elementary and middle school levels can model their thinking and understanding using math manipulatives.

Number Bead String Resources (from Amazon):

  • The list below will make 20 number bead strings.

  • I recommend each student making two number bead strings.

  • One for school use and 1 for home use.

  • Buy extra just in case beads get lost.

Nylon Shoelaces

White Pony Beads

Red Pony Beads

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Christine King
Richland One School District - Dual Modalities Instruction

The focus of this workshop was allow participants to engage research-based strategies that support teaching in dual modality instructional settings. This session focused on the use of math tools (virtual and authentic), pedagogical structures that allow for partner/group work to include virtual and face-to-face learners, and examine 3 ways to gather formative assessment data in dual modality settings.

Slide Deck

Resources Mentioned

Classroom Videos

Christine King