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Rachel Freeman School of Engineering Educators Attend Teacher Academy

Recently, five educators from Rachel Freeman School of Engineering attended a North Carolina Teacher Academy at Appalachian State University. The participants included: Meghann Crow, Brandy Metzger, Andrea Raines, Melissa Stephens and Melissa Williamson.

The North Carolina Teacher Academy is a professional development program established and funded by the North Carolina General Assembly. The mission of the Teacher Academy is to enrich instruction and impact student achievement by supporting the growth and retention of highly qualified teachers through research-based professional development in the areas of school leadership, instructional methodology, core content and technology.

The teachers from Rachel Freeman School of Engineering attended the module, Developing Arithmetic and Algebraic Reasoning in Elementary Grades. This module will help teachers understand student thinking and train teachers to probe student responses and analyze student work. The teachers learned problem types developed from over twenty years of research and how to incorporate them into their lessons. They also learned to recognize the types of strategies students use in problem solving and how to help students make sense of mathematics. Learning of mathematics has to be accompanied with ways to think about mathematics. This training will help them design lessons that will promote student dialogue about the ways they think about mathematical concepts. In addition, another focus of this module is linking arithmetic and algebra in elementary grades.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Miars, principal, at 910-251-6011 or emiars@nhcs.net.

 

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7/29/08