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--Allowing her students' interest in environmental issues to guide a technology-based unit, Pamela Galus, of Omaha, Nebraska, found her content knowledge grew along with her students' research.
--Anne C. Patterson, a veteran math teacher from Deland, Florida, and president of Mainly Math, Inc., shares her discovery unit for reluctant learners, which proved to be a refresher course in formulas for her.
--Haddonfield, New Jersey, math teacher Denise Tabasco and physics teacher Mary Barth had to learn each other's specialty as they developed a calculus-based physics course.
Finally, in this issue, the ENC staff describes Classroom Calendar, an ever-expanding resource for increasing content knowledge found on ENC Online ( http://www.enc.org/thisweek/calendar/). Every month new entries for enriching mathematics and science teaching are linked to the calendar. Each entry gives an overview of the topic along with sources of more information for both teachers and students. In this latest issue of Focus, two new entries are previewed--Neon Lights and Statistics.
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About ENC
Created to serve the nation's preK-12 mathematics and science educators, ENC identifies curriculum resources, creates professional development materials, and disseminates information and products to improve teaching and learning. More than 21,000 science and mathematics resources are cataloged and described in ENC's searchable online database. The quarterly magazine ENC Focus examines issues of importance to classroom teachers and is available at no cost as a print subscription and an online publication. ENC works with professional education groups and government agencies to improve mathematics and science education at all levels. Find information about these and other products and services at ENC Online (http://www.enc.org).
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Jerry P. Becker
Curriculum & Instruction
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4610
Phone: (618) 453-4241 [O]
(618) 457-8903 [H]
Fax: (618) 453-4244
E-mail: jbecker at siu.edu
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jerry Becker
[mailto:jbecker at siu.edu]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 11, 2002 10:53
PM<BR><B>To:</B> jbecker at siu.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> News Release: Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>NEWS RELEASE</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Contact: Carolyn Hamilton [chamilton at enc.org -- (614)
247-7928]</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Increasing Math and Science Content Knowledge Is Discussed by Practicing
Teachers in the July issue of ENC Focus Magazine</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>(Columbus, Ohio, July 9, 2002) More than most other teachers, math and
science teachers must continually update and expand their content knowledge to
keep pace with increased expectations. National standards for student learning,
recent discoveries in science, new approaches to teaching, and national and
international comparisons of student achievement require these teachers to keep
learning more in their fields. In the July issue of the quarterly magazine ENC
Focus, classroom teachers and teacher educators describe ways that they learn
and grow while they teach.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The content of the magazine is available on ENC Online (<A
href="http://www.enc.org/focus/content/">http://www.enc.org/focus/content/</A>).</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>An interview with one of the nation's best-known advocates for increasing
the mathematics expertise of elementary school teachers is a special feature of
the issue. Liping Ma tells the Focus interviewer how she became aware of the
differences between American and Chinese elementary teachers in their
presentation of arithmetic. Chinese teachers bring a far deeper understanding of
mathematics concepts to their classrooms, she says. She describes her continuing
research into better ways to teach mathematics to the young, but she also
reminds classroom teachers that they are their own best teachers when they
constantly ask themselves "Why?". A brief description of Ma's initial research
accompanies the interview.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>In another article, Zalman Usiskin, director of the University of Chicago
School Mathematics Project, proposes math and science courses that are aimed
specifically at teaching those subjects in K-12 classrooms. Teachers'
mathematics and teachers' science are not watered-down content but content aimed
at a particular profession, he says.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Joan Kenney of the Harvard Graduate School of Education describes a program
that seeks to break down the division between basic mathematics skills and
conceptual understanding, and she gives examples of problems for primary,
elementary and early middle grades.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>From their classroom experiences, several writers describe classroom
activities and teaching approaches that expand their content knowledge--</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>--Allowing her students' interest in environmental issues to guide a
technology-based unit, Pamela Galus, of Omaha, Nebraska, found her content
knowledge grew along with her students' research.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>--Anne C. Patterson, a veteran math teacher from Deland, Florida, and
president of Mainly Math, Inc., shares her discovery unit for reluctant
learners, which proved to be a refresher course in formulas for her.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>--Haddonfield, New Jersey, math teacher Denise Tabasco and physics teacher
Mary Barth had to learn each other's specialty as they developed a
calculus-based physics course.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Finally, in this issue, the ENC staff describes Classroom Calendar, an
ever-expanding resource for increasing content knowledge found on ENC Online (<A
href="http://www.enc.org/thisweek/calendar/">http://www.enc.org/thisweek/calendar/</A>).
Every month new entries for enriching mathematics and science teaching are
linked to the calendar. Each entry gives an overview of the topic along with
sources of more information for both teachers and students. In this latest issue
of Focus, two new entries are previewed--Neon Lights and Statistics.</DIV>
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<DIV>About ENC</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Created to serve the nation's preK-12 mathematics and science educators,
ENC identifies curriculum resources, creates professional development materials,
and disseminates information and products to improve teaching and learning. More
than 21,000 science and mathematics resources are cataloged and described in
ENC's searchable online database. The quarterly magazine ENC Focus examines
issues of importance to classroom teachers and is available at no cost as a
print subscription and an online publication. ENC works with professional
education groups and government agencies to improve mathematics and science
education at all levels. Find information about these and other products and
services at ENC Online (http://www.enc.org).</DIV>
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<DIV>Jerry P. Becker<BR>Curriculum & Instruction<BR>Southern Illinois
University<BR>Carbondale, IL 62901-4610<BR>Phone: (618)
453-4241
[O]<BR> (618)
457-8903 [H]<BR>Fax: (618)
453-4244<BR>E-mail: jbecker at siu.edu</DIV></BODY></HTML>
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