Notice: This workshop is now full due to an overwhelming response.

Workshop Agenda

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Friday, June 6, 2008

• Morning session 8:30am - 12 noon

  Overview of AIMS project

  • Overview workshop
  • You are the student: Experiencing a sample activity
  • Discussion of the activity and review of the lesson plan.
  • Instructional design principles used to develop AIMS materials.

• Lunch provided

• Afternoon session 1:00 - 5:00pm

  A closer look at the AIMS approach

  • The big ideas behind the lessons.
  • How to have students make and test conjectures.
  • Generating Real and motivating data sets
  • Use of technological tools.
  • Fostering classroom discourse
  • Aligning assessment with course goals

• Critique an activity using the design principles.

• Dinner on your own

Saturday, June 7, 2008

• Morning session 8:30am - 12 noon

  A closer look at the AIMS pedagogical method

  • Instructor role: changing from teacher centered to student centered
  • Role play with participants acting as students
  • How to develop and manage good classroom discussions'
  • Ways to encourage students to express their reasoning
  • Challenges teachers face

• Lunch provided

• Afternoon session 1:00 - 3:30pm

  Aligning and Integrating Assessment an Instruction

  • Developing an Assessment blueprint
  • The role and use of formative and summative
  • Using group quizzes
  • Examining AIMS assessments

  Where to go from here?

  • Deciding and making a plan for what to Adapt and Implement in your own class
  • One or more activities?
  • The pedagogical method?
  • One or more new technology tools?
  • A new assessment?

• Final discussion and workshop evaluation

  Good bye!