Course information

NOTE: To implement, participants must have the PALS Math program materials.

Math Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS): Methods for Grades 2–6 was designed to support students' development and mastery of key calculation concepts and applications aligned with the curriculum for grades 2–6. In PALS Math, students work together to learn key concepts and procedures. Designed to supplement your regular classroom instruction, it will give your students a chance to practice what they are learning with a different look, different questions, and novel problems. This course will cover computational skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as key concepts and applications across grades 2–6, including area and perimeter, fractions, money, ratios, probability, and more. Repeated scientific evaluations of PALS Math indicate that high-achieving, average-achieving, and low-achieving students, as well as students with disabilities, make more progress in PALS classrooms than in non-PALS classrooms.

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

• develop a classroom routine that increases your students' opportunities to respond and receive immediate corrective feedback.
• share the research supporting this practice across grade levels.
• confidently implement PALS in your classroom to support students' growth.
• intentionally pair your students for PALS Math using available data.
• train students in how to provide peer-mediated support.