Contact Information:
Mathematics Leadership Program
c/o Kay Caruso
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02458
Tel: 617-969-7100
kcaruso@edc.org
SummerMath for Teachers
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA 01075-1441
Tel: 413-538-2063
Fax: 413-538-2002
jpaquett@mtholyoke.edu
Annual Meeting of National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics: April 18 - 21, 2010
April 19, 2010 Monday 12:00 to 2:00
Examining video of student thinking as a component of professional development: subtraction and fractions from second to seventh grade.
Presenters: Virginia Bastable and Deborah Schifter
This interactive session will be based on video cases which feature two math topics, number lines to represent subtraction problems and story problems to explore addition and division of fractions. The DVD cases are from the 2009 editions of the Developing Mathematical Ideas modules, Building a System of Tens and Making Meaning for Operations.
April 20, 2010 Tuesday 8:45 to 10:15
Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra: An On-line Course for Teachers in Grades 1-6
Presenters: Deborah Schifter, Susan Jo Russell and Virginia Bastable
Integrating early algebra into instruction strengthens elementary students' understanding of the operations and builds a foundation for algebra. We will provide examples of teacher work from a course focused on articulating, representing, and justifying generalizations about arithmetic and discuss how teachers incorporate learning about this content into their classroom practice. The CAA course builds on the Developing Mathematical Ideas modules, Making Meaning for Operations and Reasoning Algebraically about Operations.
April 21, 2010 Wednesday 11:15 - 12:45
What do Math Coaches need to know and how do they learn it?
Presenter: Amy Morse
Participants will engage in discussion and activities designed to elicit new ideas about core elements of the coaching role, point to implications for coachiing knowledge, and investigate means for engaging in meaningful professional development for coaching.