TLM+training

July 26 and 27 Kearney Doug & Deb Monday Lenny, Chuck, De Tuesday Around 30 TLMs What could we get from the TLMs on Monday that we could use on Tuesday.

Monday Afternoon Questions to Think About--Lenny will provide What are the perquisite skills students need to succeed in Algebra? What prevents students from learning algebra? Topics and solution What is algebraic thinking?

Deb -- Has the following copies DONE
 * NE standards pentagon process skills/concepts – printed and laminated
 * NCTM process skills/the Algebraic Habit of Mind Diagram - printed and laminated
 * Developing Students’ Algebraic Reasoning Abilities – NCSM Series – had to duplicate was not able to order nice printed copies.

Chuck, De and Lenny – If you want copies made for the TLM training – It is BEST to get them to Patsy the end of next week OR NO later than Monday July 19th!! She is out of the office the middle of week of July 19th!! And then someone will need to pick up the material by FRIDAY July 24th. Thanks for all your great thoughts and hard work!! Please send your messages and questions to both Patsy and myself – so we do not miss something!

Tuesday 9:00-9:30 Lenny Introduction and going over questions 9:30-10:00 De--reading from Developing Students' Algebraic Reasoning Abilities 10:00-11:00 Explanation of the Wave procedure, collect data for small groups (?3, 5, 9, 14), divide into groups and determine the time for all TLMs. Determine time for NMPDS whole group. Put estimates on a number line. 11:00-11:30 Lenny-use Excel to find prediction- 11:30-12:00 Chuck-Use geogebra to find prediction

Vote on Angel 12:45-1:45 Chuck extension of geogebra You-tube of Dan Meyer Connections and plans for the year with input from the TLMS

Needs Copies of habits algebra, process standards NCTM, Nebraska pentagon and standards graph paper copies of Developing Students; Algebraic Reasoning Abilities

Share the expertise of the TLMs Have them solve a problem. Learning to use Excel and Geogebra

JaLena--If at all possible, I would like to incorporate "Empowering the Mentor of the Experienced Mathematics Teacher" from NCTM. I believe that Deb already sent this book to all content trainers and myself.

De--I have visited with the education director of MONA art museum in Kearney. They have some particular art works done by a former math teacher and he uses golden mean and other math concepts in his work. The education director could easily set up about 45 minutes on some concentrated focus on math in art followed by perhaps a 45 minute browse of this very nice art museum. I thought this might be a treat for the TLMs plus a way to see math through another window. MONA is not open Mondays but is open Tuesdays from 11 to 5 but they could accomodate us any time, including before 11 a.m.

I also have a great 50 minute PBS DVD on applications of fractals. I guess that is a bit more geometry than algebra, however. I am sure we will want to take TLMs through a sample of the coming year's format plus some interaction on being a good TLM, but I was also hoping to think a bit out of the box for some other things.

Lenny--These are some notes that I had after last years TLM training for this year Lenny questions for this year to consider
 * Use Angel on Day 2
 * Use books that were provided
 * Expectations of TLM and list of duties
 * Provide time for TLM to get to know their group. Some structured activity during the September meeting and again in October.
 * Introduction to Wiki (new this year)
 * I think we should use Geobra which would mean some time getting the TLMs up to speed
 * Do the Angel training during the October sessions due to concerns about connectivity. (do we want to have access to Doug for log in problems?) seemed to work well last year and Angel is more familiar to participants
 * Notebooks will be passed out in September, books in October.
 * Provide new people the pin for Angel users group for the past years.
 * How to use Angel more during our training
 * Editor rights to participants was well received by the participants
 * Which books to purchase for participants and TLMS