Summer Institutes
Home
About
Calendar
Professional Development
- Saturday Seminars
- Summer Institutes
- Mathematics Conferences
- Local Math Events
Achived Newsletters
Resource Links
Contact Us
| July 6-17, 2009 | 9:00am-4:00pm | Sac State | RIMS Institute |
| July 20-31, 2009 | 9:00am-4:00pm | Sac State | STIR/SAC Institute |
| July 6-31, 2009 | 9:00am-4:00pm | Sac State | Open Institute |
First Session: July 6 - 17
Problem Solving: You will work with other colleagues in small groups to solve problems accessible to all of us. If you can count and if you can reason, you have access to these problems. We will work to determine what we know about each problem, how we know it, and why we think it is true. The instructors will teach using questioning techniques.
Public Debrief of the morning's lesson: the staff members that observed the lesson offer their comments about what was working in the lesson. This verbal analysis of the effective parts highlights techniques used to create understanding of the underlying mathematics in the lesson. We will consider:
- What caused people to engage?
- How was understanding spread?
- What was done to propel the mathematics?
- How was understanding checked?
- How was positive reinforcement used?
Sessions will be offered to deepen our understanding of the relationship a physical pattern, the development of linear functions that model the pattern, the table of values and the graphs. Other sessions may include the development of area formulae for polygons.
Video Analysis: Participants practice observational skills observing specific aspects of teaching such as: methods of engaging students and checking for understanding; spreading understanding around the room: pushing the level of reasoning: deepening the mathematics; and using positive reinforcement for different purposes.
Second Session: July 20 - 31
For this institute, we have come up with the following topics about which to hone and deepen our own understanding: fraction arithmetic, laws of exponents, integer arithmetic, and word problems. Instructors will teach sessions by asking questions, modeling strategies for increasing engagement, differentiating while monitoring small groups, checking understanding, spreading understanding from one to many, and deepening or extending understanding.
Unit plans: Teachers will consider all the components that must be taught for the standards related to the topics above. Then in teams select one day from that unit plan, and collaboratively plan a lesson.
Collaboration: So for example, we worked to deepen our own understanding of why integer arithmetic works the way it does. Then we use the + and - manipulatives, and work through how to model those same things with the manipulatives. Then develop the unit plan that moves the kids from the manipulative to figuring out the rules, and working through what is next in the text and in the standards. Also we'll take the time to develop what you would do later as intervention when a student forgets. After developing the unit plan as a whole group, folks would break up into smaller teams, maybe even pairs, of teachers who teach the same course, and choose one day of the unit, and collaboratively plan a one day lesson. We are hopeful that everyone would come away with a lesson they could try with the own class in the first 3 weeks of school.
Online Resources for SAC/STIR Summer Institute
- Online Resources for Algebra 1
- Online Resources for Algebra 2
- Online Resources for Geometry
- Online Resources for PreAlgebra
If you need more information or have questions, contact Debbie Dennick, Events Coordinator at (916) 278-4497 or debbie@csus.edu.
