Join a Free Webinar on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
How do I get to Sesame Street? I want to learn math!
Imagine learning numbers, addition, subtraction, or fractions by watching a Muppets show! This is how the Sesame Workshop gets children around the world to learn and enjoy math. The Sesame concept may involve using rickshaws in rural Bangladesh to broadcast television shows or developing games and culturally appropriate Muppets in South Africa. Innovation has been at the center of the Sesame Workshop over the past 40 years – experimenting and succeeding with creative ways to engage children educationally.
Learn more about the Sesame Workshop by joining the Global Partnership for Education’s April webinar featuring Abby Bucuvalas, assistant director of global education at the Sesame Workshop. Abby will highlight examples of Sesame Workshop’s multimedia math content, including examples from the United States, Ghana, and Indonesia and show how these programs impact children’s numeracy learning.
Access the webinar through Adobe Connect at 10:00 am EDT/ 2.00 pm GMT (other time zones):
http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/numeracywebinar/
(Click on the “Enter as Guest” option, enter your full name in the text field and then click the “Enter Room” button.)
The webinar series is part of a Community of Practice on Numeracy facilitated by the Global Partnership for Education. The community of practice is open to teachers, educators, practitioners, researchers, academics and others interested in numeracy.
Join the community of practice on ‘Numeracy for Development’ here.
All webinars are at 10am EDT (2pm GMT) and typically fall on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule for upcoming webinars:
- May 1st, 2013 -Nadia Nosworthy, University of Western Ontario – The relationship between arithmetic achievement and symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing in primary school
- June 5th, 2013 – Linda M. Platas, University of California Berkeley – Early Childhood Development and numeracy
- July 10th, 2013 – Steve Leinwand, American Institutes for Research – What we know about high quality instruction and need to see in all math classes
- August 7th, 2013 – Luis Crouch, Global Partnership for Education – Economic Development Arguments for Numeracy
- September 4th, 2013 – Aarnout Brombacher – Developing Number Sense, Experiences from Classrooms
- October 2nd, 2013 – Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Southern Methodist University – Review of the EGMA data from a psychometric perspective
- November 6th, 2013 – Kamal Herath, Plan Sri Lanka – Boosting Mathematics Skills Through Play-Based Learning in Sri-Lanka
- December 4th, 2013 – Meera Tendolkar – Pratham’s ‘learning camp’ model- a non-linear approach to explore how children best learn math in India
If you have specific expertise in numeracy and would like to present in a webinar, please contact Deepa Srikantaiah at dsrikantaiah@globalpartnership.org.
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