| Meeting Title: |
Assessing Children’s Thinking about Fractions: 3-5
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| Dates: |
May 7 and 8, 2009
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| Time: |
9 AM - 4 PM
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| Location: |
Hilton Austin Airport Hotel
9515 Hotel Drive
Austin, Texas 78719
512-385-6767
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| Eligible Attendees: |
Interested Collaboratives must send teams of three people consisting of one Instructional Team Member and two classroom teachers of grades 3-5. Total registration for the workshop is limited to 30 teachers (10 teams).
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| Type of PDA |
This PDA is an optional choice for Collaboratives.
This PDA is not designed as a Train the Trainer type of event.
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| Description: |
Purpose of workshop: This workshop is geared toward teachers of 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. The design of the workshop is intended to provide teachers with research data on children’s thinking about fractions and the mathematical tasks related to that thinking. This knowledge will enable teachers to better to understand children’s reasoning, explanations and use of representations in solving problems involving fractions. The workshop will prepare teachers to use an interview protocol to assess individual children’s thinking. Finally, the class will focus on using what we learn about children’s thinking in fractions to design tasks or problems to use in small group or large group instruction.
Requirements: Participants will be expected to attend as a team from the same Collaborative. Teams should include two classroom teachers and one Instructional Team Member from their collaborative. Registrants will attend the two-day PDA and then meet with their team throughout the remainder of the school year to plan and discuss children’s thinking and plan additional tasks to do with their students. Some group tasks will be to team-teach lessons, report lessons and children’s strategies to Debbie Junk, PhD on the TRC community blog/web site, share lessons, and support other teachers’ use of promising tasks that elicit children’s thinking about addition and subtraction. Optionally, the team can invite other teachers from their campus to participate in the discussions about students’ work as an extension of this PDA. The three-member team will be expected to hold at least six discussion meetings and observe each other teach lessons based on tasks designed in the meetings at least two times per teacher. Participants will receive 12 professional development credits for this PDA. An additional 12-24 hours can be obtained for the discussion meetings, and lesson observations.
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| Certificates of Participation |
Certificates stating Continuing Professional Education hours (CPE credits) earned will be sent electronically after the participant has completed the online course evaluation. Participants should receive the certificate two to three weeks after the PDA. Any questions about certificates should be directed toward the contact person listed on this page.
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| Contact: |
Debra Junk, PhD
Coordinator for Mathematics Initiatives
512.232.0880
Email: [email protected]
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| Accommodations: |
Sleeping rooms are available at the workshop site on a first come, first serve basis at the state
rate. Please contact the hotel directly, referencing the UT/TRC block to book your room:
512-385-6767.
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| Parking: |
Parking is $4 per vehicle per day, which is reimbursable under the transportation guidelines of the TRC. Save your receipts, and submit with reimbursement documentation following the event to receive full reimbursement.
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| Registration: |
The cost is $45.00 per day per participant. Checks for registration need to be written to The University of Texas-Austin. Please send to the attention of Jeff Early along with the Registration/Invoice form.
Registration/Invoice Form: The Registration/Invoice form can be found here: download the Word document.
You will also need to register online here: "Register to Attend" to be officially registered for the workshop.
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