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Welcome to the Center for Innovation in Education |
| About the Center... |
| The Center for Innovation in Education is the leading provider of mathematics inservice and training in the country. Our workshops are open to teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, and parents. Over 300,000 people have participated in our workshops. |
| The Center for Innovation in Education, a nonprofit organization, was co-founded in 1975 by two classroom teachers, Mary and Bob Baratta-Lorton. They shared a philosophy based upon the belief that all children can learn and that every child matters. Their commitment was to find ways that helped teach the way children learn. |
| A page of abstract symbols, no matter how carefully designed or simplified, cannot involve the student's sense in the way real materials can. Symbols are not the concept. They are only a representation of the concept and as such are abstractions describing something which is not visible to the student. Real materials can be used by the child to assist their understanding of the concept which lie behind the symbols. Children construct meaning and understand concepts better through the use of manipulatives. |
| The Center offers
two math workshops: Math Their Way (K-2) Math a Way of Thinking (3-6) |
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The Center has now made available the Baratta-Lorton Reading Program (also known as Dekodiphukan) as a free download from its website -- subject to the one condition that the downloaded materials not be made available for sale or resale.
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| About the Workshop Instructors... |
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Workshops are led by teachers who have implemented this philosophy in their classrooms. They have faced challenges in working with colleagues, parents, and administrators who have questions about how children are taught and evaluated in mathematics understanding. |
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