Assessments are an integral part of every student's higher math education journey to becoming a secondary school math teacher. Students, whether they like it or not, are required to complete this assessment (mostly a culminating exam) in order to get a good score on their course. Giving students opportunities to develop, connect, and build their assessment according to their fieldwork experiences helps create a sense of belonging in math and values students' experiences. Tools used in this presentation will be unit plan templates. Group discussion and brainstorming ideas will be the most used strategies in this session. Participants will think about the format and process of unit plans they use in their math methods courses and how these formats and processes help future math teachers in their math teaching journey.
This will be an overview of my first two years implementing Dr. Liljedahl's building thinking classrooms instructional and assessment framework in my high school math classroom. I will share the good, the bad, the ugly, and all the adjustments i made in year two so you can learn from my mistakes.
This session will give educators information about free educator endorsement courses, including elementary math and math specialist that can be taken fully online at no cost to the educator through a grant with USBE. These courses also roll into an M.ED, which will allow teachers to have completed 1/3 of their degree already. We will also discuss other program offerings, including general professional development, conference credit, etc.
