Southeastern Regional Robert Noyce Conference 2024

Publishing Your Ideas: Let’s Get Started!

Teachers have educational ideas from which other teachers would benefit hearing. Publishing your ideas in a journal (or magazine) is one way to share those ideas. But how do you get started? This session will provide an overview of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) journals as well as insights and strategies for writing an article. Attention will be given to writing for Mathematics Teacher: Learning & Teaching PK-12 (MTLT), NCTM’s newest practitioner journal.

In this session, participants will hear insights about research-based ways to promote Black male success in middle and secondary mathematics classrooms. They will also hear reflections about this year’s book study, which had an explicit focus on Black male students’ mathematics achievement outcomes via a mathematical brotherhood. In doing so, participants will explore work regarding Black male students and share best practices for teaching mathematics to this population of students well.  

Formative assessments are essential in supporting teachers’ monitoring of student learning and providing ongoing feedback that can be used to improve pedagogical approaches. In this session, we explore how the design and use of guiding questions can serve as an approach for identifying students’ strengths and weaknesses regarding scientific understanding. Session participants will engage in collaboratively activities that are derived from guiding questions, as well as the collective design and unpacking of guiding questions that can be used in their classroom.

Teachers that center eliciting and interpreting student thinking communicate adhering to asset-based pedagogical approaches and a belief in their students’ intellectual capabilities. In this session, we explore how student generated drawings can be sources for eliciting and interpreting students’ science thinking. Session participants will look through and analyze student drawings from a previous project, as well as producing and interpreting their own science related drawings. Additionally, this session will include a discussion and brainstorming opportunities for utilizing drawings.

Formative assessments are essential in supporting teachers’ monitoring of student learning and providing ongoing feedback that can be used to improve pedagogical approaches. In this session, we explore how the design and use of guiding questions can serve as an approach for identifying students’ strengths and weaknesses regarding scientific understanding. Session participants will engage in collaboratively activities that are derived from guiding questions, as well as the collective design and unpacking of guiding questions that can be used in their classroom.