1. Network for New Science/Math Teachers
December 13, 2010
Meeting 4, Year 2
Lexington, KY
University of Kentucky
Partnership Institute for Math & Science Education Reform
Kentucky Department of Education
Welcome!
Help yourself to some refreshments and networking 1

2. Group Norms RESPECT Rejoin whole group when signaled
Everyone participates
Side conversations to a minimum
Prepared for meeting
Expect to be here and present in the work
Cell phone and other electronics etiquette
Two feet rule 2 2

3. Roadmap from November

4. Plan for Today

5. The Global Achievement Gap
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
Yogi Berra

6. The Global Achievement Gap Chapter 3: Testing 1, 2, 3
Final Word Dialogue
Select 2-3 items from chapter 3 that you highlighted
Person A (person who traveled the farthest) names one of their highlighted items with no comment.
Round-robin, starting from Person A’s right, each participant comments on the item.
Person A gets the final word.
Pattern continues until each person has a turn.
As a group, summarize the conversation and draw a conclusion. Be prepared to share with the whole group. 6

7. Chapter 4: Reinventing the Education Profession
Scan chapter 4 and your reading guide.
Write your 3 ideas/elements that need to be in the ‘education’ box to achieve the desired outcome on slips of paper. (Write each idea on a separate slip of paper.)
Put each group member’s idea slips into your table’s ‘education box.’
Categorize and synthesize the ideas to distill them down to your group’s consensus for the most important 3 ideas/elements and be prepared to defend/support your ideas.

8. “In a 21st-century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there’s an Internet connection, where a child in Dallas is now competing with a child in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know – education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it’s a prerequisite for success.”
Barack Obama, 2009

9. “We are the people we’ve been waiting for.”
Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat

10. Let’s Play a Game!

11. Web 2.0 Tools
Goals:
To explore sites that can have an impact on instruction and student learning. 11

12. Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction
Khanacademy.org
Wolframalpha.com
Livebinders.com
Polleverywhere.com
YourFreePoll.com
Jingproject.com
FreePDFconverter.com 12

13. Reminder for January
Choose a strategy to implement from chapters 5-8 in The Strategic Teacher.
Use this strategy with students and bring back student samples to our next meeting.
Be prepared to discuss pros and cons.

14. For January Our next meeting will be January 31st.
Please read chapter 5 in The Global Achievement Gap.
Bring back student work from your selected chapter in The Strategic Teacher.
Bring back standards that you worked with today in breakouts.