2009-2010 Participant Outreach Activities

To build a core group of users for the PCMI @ Math Forum resources, participants of the 2009 Secondary School Teacher Program have offered/will offer the following workshops.

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Independent Study
Date: Ongoing
Presenters: Three high school seniors and Adnan Rubai
Location: The University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN
Description: Last year, as an independent study, Adnan worked with two junior in their endeavor to understand the underlying theory of Calculus while they took AP Calculus. This year, those two students wanted to continue the independent study and, along with another senior, decided to explore other mathematics that are not in the standard high school curriculum. Adnan proposed that they work on the problem sets from PCMI morning math class, on a trial basis. They enjoyed the work so much that by the end of first day of working on the problem set, they decided to work through the whole lot. Now as Adnan continues to work with these students, he reports learning more from those problems. In several instances, the students came up with results that Adnan was not able to discover in his morning groups. As the students learn from the material, he is also looking forward to continuing his learning.
 
AP Statistics Development Committee
Date: July 1, 2009 and forward
Participant: John Mahoney
Description: John has been appointed to the position of College Board Advisor to the AP Statistics Development Committee. This seven-member committee develops the Course Description and plays a critical role in developing the exam. The CBA has additional responsibilities relating to the AP Statistics site on AP Central and other College Board activities.
 
What I Did at Math Camp This Summer
Date: September 2, 2009
Presenter: Debra Gamson and the Lincoln Park High School math department
Location: Chicago, IL
Description: Debra summarized the three weeks of the pedagogy class into a one-page handout to remind her colleagues to think about the role of questioning this year. Further, she went through all of the products from the working groups, highlighting for every individual the material relevant to the particular subjects that each one teaches. Debra also talked with these public school teachers about the teaching strategies used in PCMI's morning math class, and spoke highly of working in groups that changed frequently on material that was group-worthy.
 
AMTNJ's Web PD Algebra 1 Learning Community Introduction
Date: October 7, 2009
Presenters: Dianna M. Sopala and 25 participants from around the state of NJ
Description: The facilitators encouraged participants to bring a sample lesson or worksheet from one of their current Algebra 1 classes so the community can begin to evolve into a more focused environment of best practices, reflection and learning.
 
Algebra 1 - Reflecting & Rethinking Practice
Date: October 15, 2009
Presenter: Dianna M. Sopala
Location: Somerset, NJ
Description: As a result of reflecting & rethinking Algebra 1, new student-centered and engaging Algebra 1 activities are implemented, some of which were taken from PBS Teacherline, PCMI's 2009 Visualizing Functions group, and activities developed by Dianna.
 
Texas Instruments Technology for Technical Authoring Training
Date: October 16 - 18, 2009
Participant: John F. Mahoney
Location: Dallas, TX
Description: John was one of 15 participants in this 3-day workshop. The training focused on creating TI-Nspire Action/Consequence/Reflection Documents. These Nspire A-C files are being developed for a variety of high school courses.

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