September 2008

Date & Time

Readings and Assignments

SCI/MATH
Class 1

Wednesday, September 3

10:30 am

Intro to Sci/Math
An Invitation to Teaching Math & Science

Marilyn Burns:1-4

Math class 2
Thursday, September 4

10:30 am

Van de Walle
Chapters: 1 (Teaching Mathematics in the Era of the NCTM Standards) and 2 (Exploring what it means to do mathematics)

Math class 3
Monday, September 8
8 AM

Van de Walle Chapter 12: Whole Number Place value
Explore 100 day activities on the Internet
Continued: Chapters: 1 (Teaching Mathematics in the Era of the NCTM Standards) and 2 (Exploring what it means to do mathematics)

Math class 4
Wednesday, September 10
10:30 am

Van de Walle

Math class 5
Monday, September 15
8:00 am

Please read: Burns 5-8 Chapters
Van de Walle: Chapters 3, 12 & 13
Math Topic 1: Whole number operations

Math class 6
Tuesday, September 16
10:30 am

Van de Walle: Chapters 14
Math Topic 1: Whole number operations & estimation

Math class 7
Monday, September 22

8:00 am

Course packet (Inclusion section): Supporting Diverse Learners; Ten Strategies for Helping English Language Learners; Problem solving Model in Inclusive Education; Tips for Teaching ELL and LD students; A synthesis of content enhancement strategies for teaching with Learning problems                                     

Van de Walle
Chapters 6 & &: Building Assessment into Instruction and Teaching Mathematics Equitably to all Children

Math class 8
Wednesday, September 24
10:30 am

Van de Walle: Chapter 9: Developing Early Number Sense

Math class 9
Monday, September 29
8:00 am

Please read: Burns Finish the last chapters

Van de Walle
Chapter 10: Developing Meaning for the Operations

Math class 10
Tuesday, September 30
10:30 am

Van de Walle
Chapter 11: Helping Children to Master the Basic Facts

Read: Van de Walle:  Chapter 4: Read this entire chapter very carefully. This chapter will really be at the heart our math lesson planning.

October 2008

Math class 11
Thursday, October 9
10:30 am

Read in course packet: (Research article section): The impact of Two Standards-Based Mathematics Curricula on Student Achievement in Massachusetts

Van de Walle
Rational numbers (looking closer at some concepts of fractions, percentages and ratios): Read: Van de Walle Chapter 16: Developing Fraction Concepts
and 17 (just skim for today): Computation with Fractions

Math class 12
Monday, October 13
8:00 am

 

Math class 13
Tuesday, October 14
10: 30 am

Topic: Qualitative Methods
Read in the assignment section of CP on Researching Teaching: Descriptive Inquiry as Contemplative Practice; Phenomenology Handout
Chapter Five: Gathering Data in the Field; Qualitative Data Analysis

Math class 14
Friday, October 24

8:00 - 9:00 am,

9-10:00 (note change for Chapel Break)

10:30-11:30 am

11:30-12:20 (Montis)

Peer teaching

Peer review and feedback of math lesson plan 1:
Due Friday, October 31, 2008 at 5:30pm by e-mail to Michele and your peer reviewer

Van de Walle: Chapter 7: Teaching Mathematics
Equitably to all Children

Course packet beginning on page 83: (Research
articles and additional reading section):
Montis, K. K. (2000). Language development
and concept flexibility in dyscalculia:
a case study. Journal for
Research in Mathematics 31, 541-556.

November 2008

SCI/MATH Class 1
Friday, November 7
10:30 am

SCI/MATH Class 2
Tuesday, November 25
10:30 am

Course packet: (Research
articles and additional reading section) page 65: Stockall, N., &
Gartin, B.  (2002).  The nature of inclusion
in a blue ribbon school: a
revelatory case.  Exceptionality, 10 (3), .

Bring inclusion text book to class. Read in your inclusive classrooms
book about teaching students with
special needs in
a subject specific classroom. Bring
this book to class.

Second hour: Topic: Qualitative Methods
Read in the assignment section of CP on Researching Teaching: Qualitative Data Analysis

December 2008

SCI/MATH Class 3

Friday, December 5
8:00 am

Research topics and preparation

SCI/MATH Class 4

Monday, December 8

1:30 pm

Research presentations to whole class
Math & Science notebook due for final check

Tuesday, December 16

Small group final exam

10:30-12:00 or 12:15-1:45 pm