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*** UnConference Sessions Saturday 23 January 2016 at 8:15 AM ***
Madison Room: Engineering Design Processes: Joy-Lyn and David McDonald
Spanish Peaks: Reluctant Learners and Mindsets: Lei_Anna Bertelsen & Lisa Scott
Gravelly: Meaningful Tasks: Angel Zickefoose
BearTooth: Technology: Matt Roscoe and Hilary Risser
The UnConference Sessions were determined based upon your suggested topics/issues for the sessions. Thank you for your suggestions. Each session has a facilitator or team of facilitators to solicit sharing from each participant; each participant may share sources and links to information relevant to the topics and encourage ongoing collaboration. You should collect important notes from your session that we can then post to share with all on this blog.
Again, thank you.
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The Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) and Montana Science Teachers Association (MSTA) jointly sponsor this annual conference. This site will be updated weekly as we count down the weeks to the Math Science Leadership Conference 2016 in Bozeman, Montana on Friday-Saturday, 22 & 23 January 2016. This year's conference will bring together math and science leaders from across the state working together to provide for concerted state-wide collaboration over the next two years. Please invite a colleague you would like to work with into the future too.
REGISTRATION
This year, the registration fee is $135. Please join us and register for the conference using the Conference Registration Link.
LODGING RESERVATIONS
And be sure to make your own reservations at the Comfort Inn 1370 N 7th Ave, Bozeman, MT
(406) 587-2322 in Bozeman before the deadline January 15, 2016 using the Group Name, Math Science Leadership. Single and double rooms available: $74 plus tax/night.
SESSIONS OVERVEW
The theme of the conference is Student-centered Investigations: Planning, Managing, and Evaluating for Success and begins at 8 AM on Friday 22 January and ends at noon on Saturday 23 January. Friday meals provided including breakfast, lunch, and dinner with entertainment. We hope all can attend the entire conference as this is much more than just a series of sessions, but rather, establishing a community.
Conference Overview/Keynote: Dave Thomas, University of Great Falls
Understanding and
Shifting Mindsets – Lisa Scott and Lei-Anna Bertelsen
“For leaders in
mathematics education, understanding the role that beliefs play in the work of
teachers is crucial to providing targeted guidance and support for teachers of
mathematics…A teacher’s mindset can influence his or her approach to teaching
mathematics…Like nurturing a guiding vision, leaders and teams of leaders must
attend to shifting beliefs and mindsets of those who impact school mathematics
programs” (It’s TIME, pp. 12-14).
Participants
will:
- Address the beliefs and mindsets that guide actions and determine willingness to change.
- Learn, explore, and discuss teacher and student mindsets related to learning mathematics/science.
- Learn about a professional development opportunity to shift school culture of teaching and learning mathematics/science.
The NGSS Practice of Planning and Carrying Out Investigations, Elementary: Judy Boyle
Come learn how to use discrepant events and misconceptions to catapult your student into designing their own investigation. Learn how to incorporate the other NGSS practices ,cross-cutting concepts, and notebooking into designing investigations. We will do a great activity you can use in your classroom.
Come learn how to use discrepant events and misconceptions to catapult your student into designing their own investigation. Learn how to incorporate the other NGSS practices ,cross-cutting concepts, and notebooking into designing investigations. We will do a great activity you can use in your classroom.
The NGSS Practice of Planning and Carrying Out Investigations, Middle Schoo: John Graves
This interactive session will engage teachers in this Science & Engineering Practice. Participants will learn strategies to use with their students immediately.
This interactive session will engage teachers in this Science & Engineering Practice. Participants will learn strategies to use with their students immediately.
The NGSS Practice of Planning and Carrying Out Investigations, High School: Tom Cubbage
Come try out an activity to teach a tough concept through an interactive session utilizing a student centered investigation of protein structure and function. We'll also brainstorm techniques to incorporate cross cutting concepts and engineering practices and other aspects of NGSS.
Come try out an activity to teach a tough concept through an interactive session utilizing a student centered investigation of protein structure and function. We'll also brainstorm techniques to incorporate cross cutting concepts and engineering practices and other aspects of NGSS.
Magic and the Magical Science Process Skills - Walt Woolbaugh
Join Magician Walt Woolbaugh as he not only entertains you with some
magical effects, but also teaches you some tricks that you can do for your
students which highlight and focus on science process skills.
DENSI – TEE: Walt Woolbaugh
Join middle school science teacher Walt
Woolbaugh as he takes you through on of his typical science labs, this one
focusing on density. Experience how he combines inquiry-based
investigations combing math and science and see how he conducts performance
assessments with his lab investigations.
Cross State Math
Module:
Collaborative Grouping - Jake Warner and Brooke Taylor
Collaborative groupwork is an opportunity to create a culture in our classrooms in which the valuable contributions of each and every student are appreciated and used to explore, solve problems, and engage in rich meaningful mathematics. Understanding and using the most effective strategies is key to making collaborative group work effective for learning. This workshop will provide strategies for creating a culture and structure that support and nurture effective collaborative group work in the secondary mathematics classroom.</>
Building a PLN- Hilary Risser
This session focuses on professional learning networks
(PLNs). During the session you will learn about the importance of
PLNs and how to build your own informal PLN. We will discuss
face-to-face and online opportunities for building connections.
Cross State Math Module: Using
Assessment: Looking at Student Work - Walt Stevens, Leslie Bogar, and David
Erickson
The MT Math Teachers’ Circle: Mathematical Inquiry for Teachers -
Matt Roscoe and Fred Peck
In a conference about mathematical inquiry, let’s do some ourselves! Just like students, teachers deserve to engage in authentic mathematical inquiry. This is the idea behind the Montana Math Teachers’ Circle (MMTC). The MMTC meets biannually across the state, and aims to: reinvigorate middle- and high-school mathematics teachers’ love of mathematics by engaging in mathematical activity, facilitate connections among and between teachers and mathematicians, and create an ongoing, supportive and collaborative community of teacher-mathematicians. In this session, participants will experience an MMTC session as they investigate a situation in Euclidian geometry that is “too lucky to be a coincidence.” We will conclude by relating the mathematical activity back to the classroom by introducing a simple framework for classroom inquiry, the "TRU Math framework" (Schoenfeld, 2014) and using this framework to explore the activity.
Matt Roscoe and Fred Peck
In a conference about mathematical inquiry, let’s do some ourselves! Just like students, teachers deserve to engage in authentic mathematical inquiry. This is the idea behind the Montana Math Teachers’ Circle (MMTC). The MMTC meets biannually across the state, and aims to: reinvigorate middle- and high-school mathematics teachers’ love of mathematics by engaging in mathematical activity, facilitate connections among and between teachers and mathematicians, and create an ongoing, supportive and collaborative community of teacher-mathematicians. In this session, participants will experience an MMTC session as they investigate a situation in Euclidian geometry that is “too lucky to be a coincidence.” We will conclude by relating the mathematical activity back to the classroom by introducing a simple framework for classroom inquiry, the "TRU Math framework" (Schoenfeld, 2014) and using this framework to explore the activity.
UN-CONFERENCE Sessions - bring your needs/ideas/questions to share
STATE of The STATE in Mathematics and Science
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