D. DESCRIPTION OF FRAMEWORK COMPONENTS
1. Beginning to Develop a Community of Learners
D1.1. Orienting participants to the program
List of materials available about "Orienting participants
to the program":
- Logistics and scheduling information (In-service program/ Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plan: N/A
- Instructional materials:
- "Professional development needed to support teaching
mathematics through inquiry" - essay included in the reproducible
booklet entitled "Suggested Readings for Participants"
- Initial program descriptions --
to give an idea of the kind of information selected for a first description
of the program, intended primarily for potential participants:
- Follow-up information provided to participants -- to give an idea of the kind of information we chose to provide
to participants as they entered the program:
- Samples of participants' work: N/A
- Participants' feedback (In-service
program)
D1.2. Writing shared journals
List of materials available about "Writing shared
journals":
- Logistics and scheduling information (In-service program / Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plan (In-service program / Methods
course)
- Instructional materials:
- Samples of participants' work:
- Sample class collections of journals -- to get a sense of what participants may write about in their journals,
at different points in the program and in response to different kinds of
prompts:
- Complete set of journals for selected participants -- to get a sense of how the use of journals may vary
over time, and how journals can provide a valuable record of participants'
growth throughout the program (In-service
program/ Methods course)
- Examples of facilitator's entries -- to get a sense of the variety of ways a facilitator can use his/her
journal entry as a pedagogical tool (In-service
program / Methods course)
- Participants' feedback (In-service
program)
D1.3. Making connections with school mathematics reform
List of materials available about "Making connections
with school mathematics reform":
D1.4. Rethinking "What is math?"
List of materials available about "Rethinking 'What
is math'":
D1.5. Surveying participants' beliefs about math
List of materials available about "Surveying participants'
beliefs about math":
- Logistics and scheduling information (In-service program / Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plans (Methods course)
- Instructional materials:
- Samples of participants' work:
- Examples of participants' survey responses -- to get a sense of the kind of information elicited by specific
questions, as well as of participants' different backgrounds (Methods course)
- Participants' feedback (Methods course)
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