Thomas J. Lahey Elementary School

Math AIS

Academic Intervention Services refer to additional instruction that supplements the teaching in a student’s regular classroom.  The statewide AIS program was created to help ensure that all students in New York meet the State learning standards.  Harborfields’ AIS Math Program was designed to help support student learning by identifying and trying to strengthen each student’s area(s) of relative weakness, so that new learning in the classroom is not hampered by gaps in understanding of underlying principles.  

AIS Math classes are highly differentiated and have a very low student to teacher ratio.  Classes are held in small, less formal classroom settings, where students are encouraged to ask questions, give explanations, and justify their reasoning.
 
While the goal of the AIS Math Program is to help students meet the State learning standards, the focus is on learning and understanding.  AIS Math teachers use questioning techniques to check for understanding, use multi-modal teaching strategies to connect with every student’s learning strengths, and use a pictorial to concrete to abstract teaching process to aid in understanding.