From mmillican at osrhe.edu Wed Sep 5 11:34:29 2001 From: mmillican at osrhe.edu (Millican, Marvanna) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:39 2004 Subject: [Ike] Sept. 11 workshop Message-ID: Please pass the following announcement and maps on to any interested parties. If you have any trouble with the files, e-mail me and I can fax to you if you wish. Marvanna Millican Coordinator for System Advancement and Economic Development Projects Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405/225-9154 405/225-9255 FAX mmillican@osrhe.edu <> <> <> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SAIKEquestionanswer.doc Type: application/msword Size: 28160 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/ike/attachments/20010905/c8cfe891/SAIKEquestionanswer.doc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: RCRdirections.doc Type: application/msword Size: 19968 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/ike/attachments/20010905/c8cfe891/RCRdirections.doc From mmillican at osrhe.edu Mon Sep 10 15:39:18 2001 From: mmillican at osrhe.edu (Millican, Marvanna) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:39 2004 Subject: [Ike] Workshop tomorrow Message-ID: NOTE - REMINDER Tomorrow, Sept. 11, Eisenhower workshop session will begin at 10 a.m. and the Summer Academy workshop will begin at 11:30 a.m. Location: 655 Research Parkway, Oklahoma State Regents' Office 2nd floor, Regents' Conference Room Marvanna Millican Coordinator for System Advancement and Economic Development Projects Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405/225-9154 405/225-9255 FAX mmillican@osrhe.edu From sweinand at osrhe.edu Thu Sep 13 10:00:51 2001 From: sweinand at osrhe.edu (Weinand, Stacey) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:39 2004 Subject: [Ike] NSF Physics Prep Program Message-ID: <2459A119684313438953596810EF37FE5AB310@kong.osrhe.edu> ************************************ NSF FUNDS NEW PHYSICS TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM A five-year, $5.76 million grant has been awarded by the National Science Foundation to the American Physical Society (APS), in partnership with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP). These professional societies will create a nationwide initiative, the Physics Teacher Coalition (PhysTEC), to dramatically improve the science preparation and teaching skills of future secondary and elementary teachers and to establish an Induction/Mentor program for new teachers. "PhysTEC will be established with an initial set of six primary institutions and more than twenty-five universities and colleges that share a strong commitment to revise their teacher preparation programs," according to PhysTEC principal investigator Fredrick Stein. "This includes improving the preparation of both elementary and secondary science teachers." The program incorporates exemplary components of past NSF-supported projects that have proven to be successful in making long-term positive changes in teacher preparation. These include: * A Teacher-in-Residence program that provides for a local K-12 science teacher to become a full-time participant in assisting faculty with both team-teaching and course revisions * A long-term, active collaboration between the physics department, the education department, and the local school community * The redesign of content and pedagogy of targeted physics courses based on results from physics education research as well as utilization of appropriate interactive technologies * The redesign of content and pedagogy for elementary and secondary science methods courses with an emphasis on inquiry-based, hands-on approaches to teaching and learning * The participation of physics faculty in increasing and improving field-based experiences of prospective teachers and in establishing an induction program and a mentor program for novice PhysTEC teachers In addition to assisting colleges and universities with improving the preparation of future teachers of physical science and physics at all levels, APS/AAPT/AIP will broadly disseminate the best practices developed through these efforts. For additional information, contact Dr. Fredrick M. Stein, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society, at 301-209-3263 or via e-mail to stein@aps.org. From sweinand at osrhe.edu Tue Sep 18 13:30:20 2001 From: sweinand at osrhe.edu (Weinand, Stacey) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:39 2004 Subject: [Ike] IKE Q&A Message-ID: <2459A119684313438953596810EF37FE5AB365@kong.osrhe.edu> Here are some of the issues/items that were discussed at the IKE Q&A on September 11th. If you attended and feel that I left out something important, please let me know and I will forward it to the group. Rationale for the 3 focus items. Due to the new graduation requirements which require ALL students to take Algebra I plus 2 additional math courses above Algebra I and the end of course Algebra I test which will be given to all students following the completion of the Algebra I course (field test in 2002, live in 2003), the first two areas of emphasis relate to algebraic thinking and use of test data. It is a state goal to assist teachers with better student preparation in algebra. Too many of the middle school teachers are not sure how to approach algebra in grades 5-7 and some teachers are not sure how to teach algebra to ALL students without watering down the curriculum. The challenge is to create teacher training opportunities to meet these needs. NCTM has some excellent materials which involve algebraic thinking K-12. SDE has sample test items and ACT has the Standards for Transition which are incorporated into PASS. Districts are in need of professional development opportunities to help their teachers make sure their curriculum, instruction, and assessment will be effective in order to ensure that students pass the end of course algebra tests and to reduce the number of students needing remediation. The last bullet is a federal requirement verbatim. If there are teachers who are teaching out of field or are in need of additional training (i.e., alternative or emergency cert), these teachers need to receive some additional training to get them certified or enhance their teaching ability. I encouraged the people who attended the Q&A to approach the school districts in their area to see what were their areas of concern/need. This way you would have a better chance of having plenty of participants. Local districts have additional Title II funds this year so they should be able to provide some inkind funding and may be looking for ways to spend it this year. Some suggestions were made about the 45 hour follow up requirement: Consider using the National Board Certification model. Consider using more observation time, study groups, internet use, etc. Consider implementing a lesson plan, video taping the lesson, having peer discussion about the tape, revising the lesson, retaping, more discussion ... The 45 contact hours do not have to be back at the institution or with all the participants together. Consider them as implementation hours (but be sure to have plenty of reflection, processing, etc.) Someone asked if IKE could be used for college faculty prof development. The answer is YES. Proposals which incorporate college faculty learning with common ed faculty would be great. This may be a good way to enrich the teacher education and/or Arts & Science faculty collaborations with K-12 teachers as well as a mutual sharing of knowledge. Here are some resources: ENC Access Centers National Board Certification Presidential Awardees National Council of Teachers of Mathematics www.nctm.org Oklahoma State Department of Education From sweinand at osrhe.edu Fri Sep 28 15:31:29 2001 From: sweinand at osrhe.edu (Weinand, Stacey) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:39 2004 Subject: [Ike] FW: [CASMEO] SCIMAST Online Mentoring Service Message-ID: <2459A119684313438953596810EF37FE5AB3DE@kong.osrhe.edu> Wanted to share this with you since you work with teachers. Please share with others -- Stacey > >This is an announcement of the SCIMAST Online Mentoring Project for >Math and Science Teachers, which is sponsored by the Southwest >Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL). SCIMAST and Presidential >Awardees (as mentors) from your state have created a valuable >resource and offer their assistance to novice and experienced >science and mathematics teachers. Mentors share their ideas and >experiences about teaching mathematics and science and about ways >their students have best learned mathematics and science. Responses >of the mentors are not only sent to the sciencementoring and >mathmentoring email listservs but also are posted in a searchable >archive on the SCIMAST web site. On the web site, you may submit >your own question, read the responses of mentors who answered >previous questions, and sign up to receive email notification of new >archive submissions. > >If you provide education links on an association's website, please >consider adding a link to the SCIMAST Math and Science Mentoring >Project. > >The URL of the service is http://www.sedl.org/scimast/archives/ > >Attached to this email is a MS-WORD document that may be >printed/emailed and used as a flyer to promote the awareness of this >service. > >Thanks! > >Phillip G. Eaglin, Ph.D. >Eisenhower Southwest Consortium for the Improvement of > Mathematics and Science Teaching (SCIMAST) >Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) >211 East Seventh Street >Austin, TX 78701-3281 > >Office: 1-512-476-6861 ext 264 >Fax: 1-512-476-2286 > >E-mail: peaglin@sedl.org >Web page: http://www.sedl.org/scimast/archives/ _______________________________________________ CASMEO mailing list CASMEO@lists.onenet.net http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/casmeo