Simmt article on math education and citizenship

Simmt: Math education and citizenship

Change in due date for Assigment 2

Hi everyone. We will start work on Assignment 2 next class (Friday Oct. 1), and the assignment will be due Wed. Oct. 13 rather than Friday Oct. 8.

cheers,
Susan

Sylvia's problem-solving workshop this Wed. Sept. 29, 11 - noon!

“Using pedagogical documentation

to develop a more effective problem-solving approach in young children”

presentation in Room 308A

Wednesday September 29, 2010

from 11 a.m. to 12 noon

Pedagogical documentation comes from the practices of the educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It enjoys great popularity within Early Childhood settings. Researchers here at UBC have been exploring its use in documenting the mathematical thinking of six- to eight-year-olds.

This presentation uses documentation to show how teachers might facilitate the skills of knowing “how to think” rather than simply focusing on “what to think” when children engage with mathematical problems.

This lively presentation includes multi-media examples of children having fun with math. Come to explore a new approach for your teaching or to recapture the joy of early learning.

Presenter: Sylvia McLellan – doctoral student in EDCP.

This workshop will also be presented in Denver, CO

at the 2010 regional NCTM conference.

For more information: smclella@interchange.ubc.ca

Battleground Schools math ed reading

Gerofsky article on math ed from Battleground Schools

For our class on Wed. Sept. 29, please write a 300-word blog summary and response to this short article.

Blog entries that should be done by now: please check & update by Fri. Oct. 1

1) Response to Skemp article
2) (optional) Further response to "relational/instrumental" discussion in class
3) Writing on your most memorable math teachers
4) Discussion of the Dave Hewitt videos
5) Burning questions for teachers and students for Assignment 1
6) First micro-teaching: BOOPPPS lesson plan
7) Feedback and reflections on microteaching
8) Assignment 1 write-up: Interviews with teachers and students

Re: permission forms received from teachers and students for Assignment 1:
Please bring these to show me in class on Monday, and then hold onto them till the end of your program next August, just as evidence that you did receive permission for the interviews.

Great research and presentations for Assignment 1, and your homework

Congratulations to all the groups for excellent work on the research, write-up and presentation of Assignment 1 today. I think this was the most varied and fascinating result from this assignment that I've seen yet! You've all done a great job of finding interesting interviewees, choosing good questions and analyzing the most interesting, controversial and relevant responses.

Since we didn't have time to discuss the presentations in class, your homework for Monday (by noon) is to choose three of the presentations that most caught your interest and comment on each one on the blogs of one of the participants. Please follow the train of comments and conversation that have already started so that this is a real exchange of ideas, and do make your comments substantive (ie: not just "great presentation!")

I'm looking forward to reading the discussions!

Lesson plan basics powerpoint, from Sept. 17 class

Here's the powerpoint that outlines the BOOPPPS lesson planning template.
Lesson plan basics ppt

Powerpoint on modelling in teacher education & buzz group lectures

Here is the powerpoint from our first class:

Ppt on modelling in teacher ed and buzz group lectures

Informed consent forms for Assignment 1

Consent forms

Click on the link to get the pdf of the consent forms.

Welcome!

Hi everyone. Welcome to our class blog! This will function as a website for our whole class. I will include interesting links here, including links to all of our personal class blogs, to interesting math education resources and other things of interest.

See you in class and online!