PIMSE Opening Day

Agenda Greeting/Scavenger Hunt8:00 Intro to PIMSE-GK12 8:30 Evaluation Team Orientation 9:30 Fellow’s Research 10:30 Google, WIKI Accounts 11:00 Ideas for Classroom Routines 11:30 Summer Work 12:30

Greeting Have all the teachers found their fellows? How long have you been using The ASSISTment System.  7 years?  6 years?  5 years?  4 years?  3 years?  2 years?  1 year?  0 years

How did we get here Neil: 10 minutes to talk about the development of ASSISTment Cristina: What is GK-12 Neil: 10 minutes to talk about writing the PIMSE grant. PIMSE Partnership Implementing Math and Science Education

PIMSE Expectations 1 Develop a classroom routine that incorporates ASSISTment and the fellows teaching. This will be highly personalized.  Example: Fellow works with students who do not demonstrate understanding of the learning goals.  Example: Fellows work with students who do demonstrate understanding of the learning goals.  Example: Fellows teach a lesson in response to data collected that hour or for homework. Each team of teacher and fellow will determine which classes he or she will work with on a regular basis.

PIMSE Expectations 2 Teachers and Fellows will meet to plan the lesson for the day. Either that morning or a previous day. Fellows will report on the meeting and the lesson in a per-visit log. Teachers will observe the fellows teaching once a month to help them reflect on their teaching. Twice in the year there will be a videotaped formal observation. Fellow will give an interactive presentation of their work to the students.

PIMSE Expectations 3 Teachers will learn from their fellow how to use technology beyond ASSISTment.  Google Docs  Electronic white Boards  Face Book? ASSISTment group?  Who knows what else Students will be inspired to study technology and other STEM areas.

Teachers will be paid in chunks of work and by hourly time. Examples of Chunks are  Meetings/Workshops Examples of hourly time you would work on:  Building content  Meeting with fellows to lesson plan after school  Working with the development team. PIMSE work

Break Fill out forms for Tricia. Registration for class.

Evaluation Our two expert evaluators are:  Matt Militillo  Jason Schweid

Fellow Research Fellows SHORT presentations of research. Tour of the Lab

Fellow Research Zach Broderick Matt Dailey Adam Goldstein Paul Kehrer Rob Martin Zach Pardos Jozeph Patvarcz Peter Swire

Break Lets all go outside and get a group photo!

Communication Google Make an account WIKI Make an account Introduce yourself on your page.

ASSISTment Routine Ideas Fellows share what you have done in the past Experienced Teachers share what you have done. What have we missed? Think: Formative Assessment

Formative Assessment cycle A Formative assessment cycle involves: 1.Teaching a lesson to achieve objectives. The lesson includes a planned assessment to check if the objective has been learned. 2.Data is gathered and analyzed from the assessment by both the teacher and the student. 3.New lesson is formulated in response to the data. A new objective may be formulated or the teacher and students continue to work towards the original objective(s). The teacher may adjust the teaching strategy.

Cycle Plan  Objective  Lesson  Assessment Analyze  Teacher and Students look at data Plan  New or old Objective  Lesson  Assessment …

Summer This summer you can work up to 40 hours. Sign up for Hours, initial when it occurs. DO this on the official Summer Work Clip-board. Develop ASSISTment classroom routines which. Take your own content and put it into ASSISTment. Take our content and bundle it to fit your course. Your fellow will meet you at the start and end of each day at WPI.

Projects Text book Homework. LETS Team up. You may want to build all the homework, or just the chapter reviews. Mastery Learning. We are trying to make Mastery Learning for every one of our 137 skills. Find some of our unfinished skills that match your curriculum and help us move forward on building those. Share what you do on a wiki page.

Study Ask not what ASSISTments can do for you but what you can do for ASSISTments.  Do you want to be able to prove to administrators and parents that what you are doing is beneficial  Do you want your name on a publication?

My favorite 6 word story ASSISTment, Tom, Charlie our three children.