Overview
Math Educators – work with the mathematics pedagogy experts to build your math teaching skills and earn a stipend!
This virtual professional development is hosted by the Oregon Coast STEM Hub and connects teachers with resources and support to help teachers make the shift to ambitious math instruction. Facilitated by the Teachers Development Group, join secondary teachers from across the coast in learning and practicing strategies to provide opportunities for all students, especially those who are underserved in STEM fields.
Who: Secondary math teachers from public school districts in Oregon. Priority will be given to educators from the Oregon Coast region: Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln, Coos, Curry and coastal areas of Lane and Douglas Counties.
What: Virtual professional development with in-person and virtual workshops to build equity-based, engaging and rigorous mathematics pedagogy skills. Participants will:
- Learn about, plan for, and rehearse strategies designed to provide access and opportunity for all students, especially those who are underserved in STEM
- Receive support in planning for and implementing an equitable, discourse-based, culture of reasoning and sense-making
- Modify existing math tasks within district math curricula to increase the rigor, making tasks more meaningful and engaging for students, while developing conceptual understanding
- Make connections with math content and trajectories of math ideas at the task, lesson, and unit levels
- Analyze and design formative assessments to support shifts in ambitious math instruction
- Make sense of routines to potentially increase students’ math identity and agency by drawing on the assets of all students
When: Twelve virtual sessions on Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-6:00pm
- January 15th, 22nd, 29th
- February 5th, 19th, 26th
- March 12th, 19th
- April 2nd, 16th 30th
- May 14th
Why: Modify existing math tasks to create more meaningful and engaging opportunities for all students. Support for teachers in planning and implementing equitable discourse-based culture of reasoning and sensemaking. Potentially increase students’ math identity and agency through examining the assets of all students and making sense of routines.
Additional Details: $800 stipend for completing all virtual sessions
Questions: Email Oregon Coast STEM Hub Coordinator
Events/Activities/Programs: Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by January 1st to the Oregon Coast STEM Hub Coordinator
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