Goals
- By enhancing their content knowledge, teachers will increase
their ability to address students' greatest needs. The
needs identified by teachers include multistep and open-ended
problem solving, constructed response items, writing. The
LEAP scores of the participating schools show that students
performance tends to be lowest in Patterns, Relations and
Functions and in constructed response items. Schools' IOWA
scores show greatest need in problems involving arithmetic
operations (both simple and multiple-step), measurement
and comparing quantities.
- Teachers will learn about the structure of the Investigations
curriculum, particularly the ways in which it fosters progressive
conceptual development through the grade levels. Teachers
at each grade level will understand the preparation that
Investigations provides at grades earlier than theirs
and will learn the demands that Investigations will
make at grades beyond theirs.
- Participants will learn about the various types of assessment
available in Investigations. (We will also address
the issue of how to use Investigations to prepare
students for standardized tests.) Participants will prepare,
test and disseminate assessment modules. See the section
entitled Workshop Requirements,
below.
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Staff
- Dr. James Madden, LSU Dept. Math. and MathVision
Lab. Project Co-director and workshop instructor.
- Dr. Frank Neubrander, LSU Dept. Math. and MathVision
Lab. Project Co-director.
- Julie Nall, EBR Schools & LINCS, Chief project
advisor.
- Nell McAnelly, LSU Dept Math. and Gordon A, Cain
Center. Senior staff member and workshop instructor.
- DesLey Plaisance, LSU Dept Math. Senior staff member
and workshop instructor.
- Costel Ionita, LSU Dept. Math. and MathVision Lab.
Graduate Assisstant,
- Adina Ionita, LSU Dept. Math. and MathVision Lab.
Graduate Assisstant,
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From left:
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Addresses, phone numbers and emails for all staff members
can be found here: Contact Information.
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Times and Places
- Summer 2002 Session: Monday, July 15---Saturday, July
20, 8:00AM--2:30PM, Peabody Hall, Room 225.
- Saturday Sessions: These will be held on the following
dates at places to be announced. Please check with
program directors (or at this web site) two weeks in advance
of the session for the location.
- August 17, 2002
- September 14, 2002
- October 19, 2002
- November 16, 2002
- December 7, 2002
- January 11, 2003
- March 29, 2003
- April 5, 2003
- May 3, 2003
- NCTM Southern Regional Conference, Biloxi. October 3-5,
2002. Download PDF forms: hotel
registration | meeting
registration. The web site for the Biloxi meeting is
at http://www.nctm.org/meetings/biloxi/.
- Summer 2003 Session: Thursday, May 29---Saturday, May
31, 2003.
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Workshop Requirements
- It is a requirement imposed by our funding agency that
in order to remain a registered participant in this program,
each participant must attend at least 85% of all workshop
sessions. Attendance will be recorded on a sign-in/sign-out
sheet. If a participant misses more than 2.5 days of the
18 days in the entire workshop, that person will be dropped
from the program and will be required to return materials
he or she has been given.
- Participants are required to participate in the design,
testing and dissemination of assessment modules. This
includes arranging class time at the participant's school
where modules can be piloted and observed. Detailed
information about the assessment modules requirement will
be provided in the orientation session on Day 1. (See the
Assessment Modules Slide Show and Assessment
Module Design.)
- Workshop staff will schedule a total of 24 hours of visits
to each participating school during the year this project
runs. Teacher participants are expected to cooperate
with workshop staff in planning these visits and coordinating
them with the activities associated with the production
of assessment modules.
- Participants are required to complete all assignments
given by workshop instructors.
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Graduate Credit Option
You may earn graduate credit for this workshop by enrolling
in the LSU mathematics course M6301 in Spring 2003.
Tuition will be waived, but you will be required to pay approximately
$100 in university fees. Enrollment forms will be available
on the first day of the workshop. You will be graded
on a Pass/Fail basis, and you will receive a passing grade
if you complete all workshop requirements.
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Photos from the July 15--20, 2002 summer workshop held at LSU.
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Teachers Lucia Snedigar (4th grade),
Constance Carro (5th grade) and Barbara Favre (1st
Grade).
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Teachers Pauline Ewing (Kindergarten),
Anne Chaney (3rd grade) and Patricia McBride (3rd
grade). In background, Kevin Zito (preservice), Belinda
Cambre (3rd grade) and Jenny Cain (2nd grade).
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Materials Requisition Forms
Click to download materials requisition
form in PDF format
or in MSWord format.
School teams will use these forms to request the purchase
of instructional materials. Our grant provides $500 per school
to obtain materials to support the implementation of Investigations.
In addition, the grant provides $425 per teacher for the same
purpose. Details about how these funds may be used will be
provided during the workshop sessions. For specific questions,
contact Frank Neubrander.
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