To do/Have accomplished
Revise instructions for MS Excel project for Educ 451 to make use of Connected Mathematics; implement Library Enhancement Initiative project (cover, narrative, books).
Continue to locate, develop, and demonstrate NetLogo modules for Educ 451 (pinwheel and star).
Carry out UTC Faculty Research Grant with preservice teachers (fall 2004).
Carry out UTC sabbatical research project with inservice teachers (spring 2005).
Revise grant proposals to NSF and UC Foundation; based on Fathom, but also purchased Mathematica Teacher’s Edition and AgentSheets through Shodor.
Incorporate computational science module into grant proposal to THEC/NCLB.
Continue dialogue with the SimCenter (initiated following summer 2003 NCSI workshop).
Prepare NCSI mini-grant proposal.
Application information for Pellissippi workshop
I would like to attend the teacher educator workshop again this summer. Since I attended the workshop last summer at UAB, I have done the following:
- Prepared and submitted a grant proposal to the UC Foundation (private endowment) to design and implement a technology-rich statistics course for education majors. (Not funded.)
- Prepared and submitted a grant proposal to NSF to design and implement a technology-rich statistics course for education majors. (Under consideration; not funded later, but suggested it be rewritten and resubmitted.) My graduate assistant worked extensively with the Fathom software package, purchased through NCSI, to form the basis of the course. Dr. Panoff provided a letter of support/partnership for the project.
- Prepared and submitted a UTC Library Enhancement Initiative grant proposal to purchase computational science books for the library. (Funded $485.) Secondary and middle grades mathematics majors will be using the material in a fall course, Educ 451 Teaching Strategies and Materials in Secondary and Middle Grades Mathematics. At the summer workshop, I would like to further define the project the students will be doing for class.
- Published the book, Chattanooga Math Trail, Community Mathematics Modules, Volume 1. Project Interactivate and other interactive mathematics Web sites are listed as further explorations for various modules. We have presented three conference workshops/sessions on the community mathematics modules, and have a poster session scheduled at the NCTM conference in April (presented), and a conference workshop scheduled for July.
- Prepared and submitted paperwork for sabbatical leave for spring semester 2005. (Approved.) I will be investigating area teachers’ use of interactive Web sites for K-12 mathematics, and making recommendations for classroom integration to correlate to state and local curriculum standards. We have presented one conference session on this topic.
- Prepared and submitted a grant proposal to the UTC Faculty Research Committee to assess pre-service teacher use of interactive Web sites for K-12 mathematics (Pending; later funded $3,000.)
- Promoted to the rank of Professor (08/01/03). This may need to be changed in the database; I don’t remember what information was collected last year.
Links to applets, etc.
NCSI - http://www.computationalscience.net/
Shodor Education Foundation - http://www.shodor.org/
Project Interactivate - http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
NCTM Illuminations - http://illuminations.nctm.org/
Java Applets and Curriculum Standards - http://oneweb.utc.edu/~deborah-mcallister/camta04.html
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