PD & T-Ed

Professional Development (for in-service teachers) and Teacher Education (for pre-service teachers)

Please hover on this menu item and select one of the pages listed.

Catalyzing Change

Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations Book released by NCTM in April 2018. Website: https://www.nctm.org/change/ Executive Summary (6 pages) Infographic (8 pages) (press release)

PLN

What is a PLN? A PLN is a Professional Learning Network.  It is also a Personal Learning Network. That is, it is a Professional Learning Network which you personalize for yourself! These are very useful, make our jobs easier, help us help our student learn more, and are therefore, very important. Here is a good …

Quadrant D — R/R Frmwk

Quadrant D and the Rigor/Relevance Framework The following is drawn from this article. There are two dimensions in the Rigor/Relevance Framework: Rigor – Knowledge. Knowledge Taxonomy is based on the six levels of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. 1.Remembering, 2.Understanding, 3.Applying, 4.Analyzing, 5.Evaluating, 6.Creating (formerly, the last 2 were 5. Synthesis, 6. Evaluation). Relevance – level …

Standards Based Assessment

Standards Based Assessment (SBA) –  Various resources to support presentations I’ve done on Standards Based Assessment.

edTPA

WIU teacher education students should access their WesternOnline and download/view the Handbook for their edTPA. About the edTPA: “edTPA is a performance-based, subject-specific assessment and support system used by teacher preparation programs throughout the United States to emphasize, measure and support the skills and knowledge that all teachers need from Day 1 in the classroom.” …

PS and CCSSM

Here I’ll put resources related to Problem Solving and the Common Core State Standards for Math. My main CCSSM page is here.

Ill. ‘Found’ Services

This page is no longer maintained. The Illinois Foundational Services not longer exists. Illinois Foundational Services – Math (from ISBE and IARSS) http://iarss.org/foundational-services/math/ List of Primary Webpages PrimaryWebpages-17-18 (Word document) Grade 6-8 MARS/Map Activities •Using Proportional Reasoning (Gr 6) –http://map.mathshell.org/lessons.php?unit=6230&collection=8&redir=1 •Increasing and Decreasing Quantities by a Percent (Gr 7) –http://map.mathshell.org/lessons.php?unit=7100&collection=8 •Applying properties of Exponents (Gr …

Instructional Practices Guide (MAA)

In 2018, the MAA published a 148-page Instructional Practices Guide. The Instructional Practices Guide aims to share effective, evidence-based practices instructors can use to facilitate meaningful learning for students of mathematics. I take the primary audience to be college instructors, but there is good information here for all math teachers. It is designed as a …