Disciplinary Content Knowledge

STEM Categorization:

Day:

Thu

Engage with presenters as they discuss assessment and rubrics designed to measure secondary teachers’ mathematical habits of mind.

Date/Time:

9:30 am to 11:00 am

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Location:

Session Materials:

Work in secondary mathematics education takes many approaches to content, pedagogy, professional development and assessment. This session aims to illuminate the richness of hte content of secondary mathematics and the field of secondary mathematics education by sharing two such approaches and reflecting on the differences and commonalities between the two.

Session Types:

Concurrent Session

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The Power and Promise of a Digital Tool for Teaching Inquiry Science

Biology

Curriculum

Disciplinary Content Knowledge

Educational Technology

Author/Presenter:

Katherine F. Paget

Jacqueline S. Miller

William J. Tally

Lead Organization(s):

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)

Year:

2015

Short Description:

To examine the value of the electronic teacher guide (eTG) as a curriculum planning and teaching tool,
it was important to study it in the contexts of teachers’ actual planning, teaching, and reflecting.
This paper described two descriptive case studies.

Resource(s):

PowerandPromise.pdf

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Webinar on the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development

Statistics

Assessment

Disciplinary Content Knowledge

Webinar Recording:
http://edc.adobeconnect.com/p3qr9x4upr5/

Author/Presenter:

Edith Gummer

Year:

2014

Short Description:

This webinar, led by Edith Gummer (formerly of NSF), discusses the guidelines outlined in the report co-authored by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation.

Resource(s):

Common Guidelines Webinar PowerPoint Slides

Report: Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development

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Perspectives for Advancing the Effectiveness of Elementary Science Instruction for Student Learning: Importance and Challenges

Assessment

Classroom Practice

Curriculum

Disciplinary Content Knowledge

Discourse

Implementation

Science

Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Systems Reform

Teacher Practice

Elementary School

Day:

Wed

Presenters discuss how their projects contribute systemically to the design, implementation, and evaluation of quality elementary science programs.

Date/Time:

9:45 am to 11:45 am

2014 Session Types:

Collaborative Panel Session

Presenters:

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Session Materials:

Session Presentation: Introduction

Romance & Vitale Session Presentation

Hanuscin Session Presentation

Samarapungavan & Bryan Session Presentation

Quality elementary science programs are faced with the challenge of adapting and/or building upon the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in order to provide an essential foundation for student learning and interest in science. As such, these science programs must address how the practices of science can be linked with cross-cutting concepts through meaningful learning contexts that, of necessity, evolve progressively across grades.

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Discussion of Promising Scale-up Strategies for Reaching Classrooms

Algebra

Curriculum

Cyberlearning

Disciplinary Content Knowledge

Educational Technology

Day:

Tues

Participants and the presenters will discuss their experiences—including releasing free and paid apps—and provide suggestions to others for successfully reaching many users.

Date/Time:

1:45 pm to 3:45 pm

2014 Session Types:

Feedback Session (Work in Post-development)

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Over a period of five years the SmartGraphs project developed HTML5 software for teaching and learning STEM subjects that make use of line graphs and scatter plots. SmartGraphs activities help students understand the “story” represented by a graph. The project created dozens of activities for algebra, physical science, and other STEM subjects, as well as an authoring system allowing non-computer-programmers to create and disseminate free online activities.

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Assessing Secondary Teachers’ Algebraic Habits of Mind

Algebra

Assessment

Disciplinary Content Knowledge

Day:

Tues

Participants provide feedback on a preliminary paper-and-pencil assessment of secondary teachers’ mathematical habits of mind (MHoM) and use classroom video to examine MHoM in practice.

Date/Time:

9:45 am to 11:45 am

2014 Session Types:

Feedback Session (Work in Development)

Presenters:

Location:

Session Materials:

In Assessing Secondary Teachers’ Algebraic Habits of Mind, the project team is developing tools to study the following questions: What are the mathematical habits of mind (MHoM) that secondary teachers use, how do they use them, and how can we measure them?

In this session, presenters share a paper-and-pencil assessment being developed to measure how teachers use MHoM when they do mathematics for themselves. The presenters also share classroom video and a preliminary framework for examining MHoM in teaching practice.