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The BranchED Resource Portal is designed to support both teacher educators and PK-12 partners in their professional development. Whether you’re seeking information on a particular topic, looking to take an online course, or to stay current with our evolving library of resources, we’ve got something for you.
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Math Beyond the Classroom: Math Around the House
This toolkit utilizes common household items that can be used to discuss math content. Items are arranged by math literacy concept. Each math concept has activities that you can do with for children. Each activity includes age range, the specific math content highlighted, and materials needed.
Math Beyond the Classroom: Math at Play
This toolkit provides ready-to-use activities designed to spark mathematical curiosity and engage children with real-world examples of math in their everyday lives. In doing so, it highlights math beyond the classroom, showcasing its beauty in everyday activities and experiences.
Measurement in Early Childhood Mathematics
This toolkit gives those working with young children a running start and some ideas of ways to captivate young children’s minds with mathematics, specifically concepts that involve measurement. It touches on broad concepts of measurement using everyday objects.
Common Mistakes in Early Childhood Mathematics
In this toolkit, we will explore how, as Math Guides—parents, caregivers, teacher educators, teachers, and teacher candidates who nurture early math literacy in young learners, we can use mistakes to help learners develop procedural fluency through conceptual understanding.
Early Math Literacy Program Reflection Toolkit
This toolkit gives those working with young children a running start and some ideas of ways to captivate young children’s minds with mathematics, specifically concepts that involve measurement. It touches on broad concepts of measurement using everyday objects.
Assessing and Supporting Self-Efficacy in Early Mathematics Instruction
This toolkit is designed for use by teacher educators, including those in higher education, school districts, and professional development settings, as a self-assessment tool to gauge teacher candidates’ and in-service teachers’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching early mathematics.
BranchED is a professional services organization and a collective of university faculty and leaders advancing educational excellence by expanding individual capacity, enabling supportive relationships, boosting institutional effectiveness, and collaborating with communities. We believe every student deserves access to caring, adaptive, and well-prepared teachers; every teacher deserves high-quality preparation that empowers, and every person benefits when we create a higher standard of education together. We are committed to achieving programmatic transformation leading to improved outcomes for educators who, by extension, benefit all students by preparing them to maximize their life possibilities.
The Resource Portal was created to support our community by providing resources such as instructional materials, online modules, podcasts, practice-based learning opportunities, research briefs, teaching video library, tool/toolkit, and webinars.