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Professional Development – Research

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It’s time to start a collection of Professional Development Resources.  This post will be devoted to books and articles regarding research inspired in part by Joe Hallgarten’s piece: “If you can’t stand the research get out of the classroom?“.   If you are looking for workshops, conferences, or institutes  look over here.

Books

  1. Classroom Instruction that Works; Research based strategies for increasing student achievement by Marzano, Pickering, and Pollack.
  2. The Teaching Gap: Best ideas from the world’s best teachers, Stigler, James.
  3. Knowing and teaching elementry school math: Teachers’ Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series).  Ma, Liping
    • ISBN: 10: 0415873843
    • A great investigation into knowing something deeply affects teaching.
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Articles

  1. “If you can’t stand the research get out of the classroom?“, Hallgarten, Joe

Websites

  1. Youcubed started by Joe Boeler on revolutionizing how math is learned and taught.

Professional Development – Activities

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This is a collection of Professional Development Activities.  If you just want to read something or take a online course…look over here.

Outdoors/Hands On

  1. Point Reyes Education Center
    • 2 days, with follow on ability to reserve the ed center for your class.
  2. Project Learning Tree
  3. Exploratorium Teacher Institute
    • Hands down the best Professional Development I’ve ever done.
    • 2-3 weeks of learning in the Exploratorium with the added bonus of a personal life-time membership
    • There are follow on 1/2 day classes regularly offered throughout the year.
  4.  Forestry Institute.
    1. 1 Week of training in the forest — how cool is that.
  5. NASA PBL
    1. 1 week at NASA developing a PBL unit w/ paid stipend.  This looks good to me.
  6. Camp Phoenix looks like fun.

Indoors

  1. BAMP (Bay Area Math Project).
    • Usually a week workshop during the summer, with following seminars during the year.
  2. CMC – North Asilomar
    • A 1-2 day conference in pacific grove (near Monterey California)
    • There are over a hundred workshops offered, you selected 4-5 to go to.
    • The workshops are hit/or miss.
  3. BACT (Bay Area Circle for Teachers) 
    • This was a great week long conference.  Great speakers and content. Funding has dried up, so I don’t know when it will be offered again.
    • The good news is that there are many other Circle Conferences offered across the USA.

Bay Area Science Org has a calendar with a list of events: