TEAC 888 Day 1 & 2 Overview DRAFT -Sept. 1920, 2008

Goal / Activity / Materials (Who) / Time
Introduction /
  • Orient participants to weekend activities
/
  • Ruth
/ 9:00-9:10
Understand issues in teaching /
  • Watch video; discussion
/
  • Handout? (Ira)
/ Friday 9:10-11:00
in computer lab 9:00-10:15
Summer Course Wrap Up /
  • Stats summer course wrap up
/
  • (Erin & Jenny)
/ 11:00-11:30
Orientation to 888 /
  • Overview presentation
/
  • Ppt presentation (Dave)
  • Syllabus (Wendy)
/ 11:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-1:00
Understand the nature of problems and questions studied in educational research
Purpose for research
Steps of research /
  • Answer questions about one of the articles, in a group…splitting up the different questions, then…
  • Get together and discuss article with others who read it.
  • Present to the rest of the class: substance of article and responses to questions
/
  • Four articles (Wendy intro)
--Ch 2 (Dave)
--Ch 3 (Ruth)
--Ch 14 (Maria)
--Ch 13 (Wendy)
  • Questions for reading research handout
/ 1:00-2:00
Group discussions and prepare presentations
Group presentations
Understand issues in teaching and their relationship to mathematics reform /
  • Presentation/discussion of math ed reforms and NCTM process standards
/
  • Issues in Teaching (Dave)
/ 2:00-2:30
Compare and contrast educational research to action research /
  • Reframe Classics Ch 3—how would it have looked had it been teacher research?
  • Mini lecture and discussion: Inside/Outside
/
  • Classics Ch 3 (Ruth)
  • Cochran-Smith article & powerpoint slides (Ruth)
/ 2:30-3:15
Break 3:15-3:30
Reflection on issues in teaching mathematics /
  • In partners, read and discuss Journal 1, following journal reflection guidelines
/
  • (Wendy)
  • Journal Response Guidelines
/ 3:30-4:00
Understand issues in teaching and their relationship to mathematics reform /
  • Discuss own teaching and the match (or lack thereof) to reform principles, in small groups
  • Brainstorm teaching issues for action research. List problems as a class, then choose one and walk through problem statement, purpose statement, and methods together.
/
  • Ruth/Wendy (Maria copy down the list from brainstorming)
/ 4:00-4:20
Small group disc.
4:20-4:30
Brainstorm
Understanding where this is all going /
  • Overview: End of project assignment; expectations of masters presentations
/
  • End of project assignment (Ruth)
/ 4:30-4:45
Homework
End of day evaluations /
  • Orientation to reading Benny
/
  • Handout: Benny Questions (Ruth)
  • Day 1 evaluations
/ 4:45-4:50
homework
evals 4:50-5:00
Day 2 Introduction /
  • Go over Day 1 evaluations
/
  • Wendy
/ Saturday8:00-8:15
Understanding students’ understanding as a form of inquiry /
  • Watch Marilyn Burns’ video interview
  • Whole group discussion of video
/
  • Marilyn Burns’ video 3
  • Questions to guide video (Wendy)
/ 8:15-9:15
Video & discussion
Understand examples of action research /
  • Presentation of action research projects
/
  • ppt presentation of action research (Scott & Cara)
/ 9:15-10:15
Break 10:15-10:30
Framing a problem /
  • Read each others’ journals in pairs; discuss in pairs using journal response handout guidelines[WaE1]
/
  • Journal handout Wendy/Ruth
/ 10:30-11:00
Understanding data collection /
  • Presentation/Discussion of data collection options and instruments
/
  • Handout for data collection (Ruth)
/ 11:00-11:30
Understand what is involved in reviewing and synthesizing educational research /
  • Presentation about literature review: Round Robin Write in teams of 4. Then each team give a main idea to the class and discuss as needed.
/
  • Lit review handout (Wendy)
/ 11:30-11:45
[finish 1:45-2:00]
Lunch 11:45-12:45
Summer course wrap up /
  • Math 806T
/
  • (Michelle & Kristie)
/ 12:45-1:45
Understanding students’ understanding as a form of inquiry /
  • Discuss Benny article. Put teachers in groups of 4 to discuss.
/
  • Ruth/Wendy/Dave/Maria each work with a group
/ 2:00-2:20
Understand the nature of action research and questions studied
Purpose of action research
Steps of action research /
  • Read one of five action research projects; discuss in small groups (mixed)
/
  • 5 action research projects (Wendy)
/ 2:20-3:20
Break 3:20-3:30
What is IRB? /
  • Overview of IRB & CITI
/
  • Handouts in notebook (Wendy)
/ 3:30-4:00
Understanding action research
Framing a problem /
  • Return to teachers’ journals and overnight reflections; whole class discussion of issues in mathematics education and how to frame as action research topics
/
  • Teachers’ reflections (Ruth/Wendy)
  • Day 2 evaluations
/ 4:00-4:50
evals 4:50-5:00

Friday: 9:00-5:00; Saturday: 8:00-5:00 (breakfast half hour before class begins)

[WaE1]Do we want them to write their responses or just discuss? And, do we want to use the journal teachers will have written before they come, or the overnight reflection?