Meaningful Support for Teachers: Specific Ways to Encourage Game-Based Learning in the Classroom

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Panelists from three projects share lessons learned in guiding game use in classroom learning, highlighting specific examples of effective resources.

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Collaborative Panel Session

The three panelists in this session are in the last one or two years of their game-based learning projects, and all have done extensive work in supporting use of their games in classroom learning. As their work has progressed, each has discovered valuable ways to support teachers as well as encountered surprises in what teachers wanted (and didn’t want), and now recognize things they wished they had learned in the beginning of their projects. Session participants leave with recommendations they can use in their current projects, including:

Innovations in Early Childhood STEM Curricula and Professional Development

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This poster symposium features six preschool projects across STEM domains that have developed curricula and provided teachers with supports for motivating all children’s engagement with STEM.

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2014 Session Types
Structured Poster Session

The collective work represented in this session responds to reports that the United States’ competitive advantage lies in its role as a technological innovation leader and to proposals that individual interest in innovation should be fostered early to avoid stereotypes and other impediments to entering the innovation pipeline.

Equitable Teaching Practices in Math

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Presenters seek feedback on an observational instrument designed to identify preservice teachers’ abilities to identify equitable teaching practices.

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2014 Session Types
Feedback Session (Work in Development)

The original version of the Mathematical Quality and Equity (MQE) video codes (Goffney, 2010; LMT, 2010) were developed as a section of the Mathematical Quality and Instruction observational instrument developed by the Learning Mathematics for Teaching Project at the University of Michigan.

Assessing Secondary Teachers’ Algebraic Habits of Mind

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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.

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2014 Session Types
Feedback Session (Work in Development)
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.

Engineering SIG

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(Open to all grantees)
This group discusses current research and practice in K-12 engineering education and issues related to content and delivery.

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2014 Session Types
Special Interest Group (SIG)

New IES Ed Research & Development Centers

IES Announces New FY 2014 Education Research and Development Centers

The Institute of Education Sciences and the National Center for Education Research awarded two new grants under the Education Research and Development Centers competition (CFDA 84.305C). The Institute of Education Sciences invited applications in two topic areas: (1) Developmental Education Assessment and Instruction, and (2) Knowledge Utilization. Total spending for these awards over five years is approximately $15 million. The grants are: