I would recommend Mark Wahl to staff who work with students who either struggle or excel in math. His presentation and materials are outstanding for multiple grade levels and student abilities. He makes teachers think about common math ideas differently and extends their conceptual abilities in many areas. We have found his presentations highly useful for teachers and helpful for parents trying to come up to speed with new math curriculum. Material is culled and custom-developed based on Mark's and the teachers' estimates of the most pressing needs of the participants.
Sessions are lively and interactive with hands-on experience, humor and candor.
Each presentation is adapted to its audience by pre-workshop briefings with knowledgeable parties. And prices are fit remarkably well into your staff development budget. Workshops can take the form of a motivational presentation , designed to enthuse teachers about utilizing a greater of variety of math teaching strategies in the classroom. Or it can go into real depth and detail in a series of three to six workshops of three hours apiece, developing teacher's math understanding and their teaching methodology simultaneously. It can even span a whole faculty, providing information on teaching any subjects through eight intelligences , deepening general problem solving thinking , and adapting to varied learning styles .