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Cohort
4 Application
(application form links at bottom of this page)
Summer Workshops
August 4 -8, 2008 Seattle
We invite you to
apply to join Cohort 4 of the Washington Mathematics Case Study Project (MCSP),
a consortium of mathematics teachers from across Washington. MCSP is a
partnership of classroom teachers and university faculty working together to
create and deliver quality professional development. Teachers will strengthen
their pedagogical content knowledge by working on cases during a 5-day
residential workshop. To this end, our sessions will combine reflection on the
big ideas of teaching mathematics with a coordinated study of student work
using video cases and written cases. These cases will be taken from real
classrooms around the entire state of Washington. Whatever curricular material
teachers are using in your district, this program will help you to teach mathematics
more effectively.
The MSCP, funded by Title II Math Science Partnership money has had a successful three years in Washington. Due to such high demand from our participating teachers and the excellent work they did with their students, we were able to secure an extension to run a one week summer workshop for August 4 - 8, 2008. There will be no follow-up sessions during the school year. Please join the returning staff Kimberly Vincent, WSU, Art Mabbott, Seattle School District, Jim King, UW, Mike Gilbert, UH, and Keith Adolphson, EWU, for one last hurray.
Project Financial
Details
á The MCSP will pay for breakfast, lunch
and snacks and will pay a $750 stipend for all teachers.
á the project will pay for lodging at the
luxurious dorm, Hansee Hall at UW, for those who live more than 50 miles from
Seattle.
á Participant Responsibilities:
o attend all five days of the summer
workshop
o pay for parking at UW, your dinners and
travel to Seattle.
o pay for Clock hours or graduate credit
(if you want one or the other)
This summerŐs
workshop will include two separate content foci: Algebraic Thinking and
Geometry. All activities will
align with the newly adopted Washington State K-8 Standards. Four of our
project staff were on the Standards Revision Team (Vincent, Mabbott, King &
Gilbert—until he moved to Hawaii)
We cannot stress
too strongly that the overall goal of the project is to develop a sustainable
program that will form lasting partnerships. For questions or comments, please
contact Kimberly Vincent,
Washington State University at 509-335-3143 or by email at vincent.kimberly@gmail.com.