Transcript Helping You Succeed: Applying for the Presidential Award

Helping You Succeed:
Applying for the Presidential Award
Dimensions 1 & 2
2013
Presented by the Presidential Alumni group SEPA
Agenda for this Session
• Brief Introductions
• Getting Started on Your Application
• Selecting a Topic
• Dimensions 1 & 2
• Your Questions
Your Presenters:
• Ruth Ruud
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Treasurer, SEPA
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Science Awardee
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Former School Administrator
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PAEMST National Selection Veteran
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[email protected]
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Martha Short
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SEPA Math Representative
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Missouri State Mentor
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PAEMST National Selection Veteran
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Mathematics Awardee
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[email protected]
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Getting Started
• Are you finished getting letters of reference?
• Don’t wait too long to get letters.
• Ask a couple of extra people, & choose the best
letters.
• Supplemental Materials – consider using some
pertinent examples of student work.
• Save work samples now!
• Dimension One: Mastery of mathematics or
science content appropriate for the grade level
taught.
• The narrative for Dimension One should be about
three pages.
• 1a. Discuss the mathematical or scientific ideas
that are fundamental to understanding the
chosen topic or concept.
• 1b. Explain why this topic or concept is important
for students to learn and how it relates to more
complex concepts that students will encounter in
subsequent lessons, grades, or courses.
• 1c. Discuss the misconceptions or
misunderstandings that students typically have
with regard to this topic or concept.
Dimension One – What you can do to
get started:
• Look at the standards. What are your students
expected to know and be able to do?
• What are your state standards? What are the
related national standards?
Math- Common Core? NCTM Content Strands?
Science- National Science Education Standards?
• What misconceptions do students have about the
content in this standard?
Use Assessment Probes to uncover
Student misconceptions.
Example Science Standard – What type of
activity might you plan for this standard?
• State Standard
• S3L2. Students will recognize the effects of pollution
and humans on the environment.
• a. Explain the effects of pollution (such as littering) to
the habitats of plants and animals.
What lesson might you plan for this?
Mathematics Standard from Common
Core (Geometry)
• Make geometric constructions
• 12. Make formal geometric constructions with a
variety of tools and methods (compass and
straightedge, string, reflective devices, paper
folding, dynamic geometric software, etc.).
• Dimension Two: Use of instructional methods and
strategies that are appropriate for the students in the
class and that support student learning.
• The narrative for Dimension Two should be about
three pages.
• 2a. Describe the instructional approaches you used to
help students understand the topic or concept
chosen in Dimension One.
• 2b. Explain how you identify and build on students’
prior knowledge, and how this knowledge is
addressed in your video and in your general teaching
strategies.
• 2c. Discuss the instructional strategies and techniques
you use to meet the learning needs of all students,
challenging those with stronger knowledge while
ensuring learning for less accomplished students.
Let’s Discuss these practices from
Dimension 2:
• Instructional Approaches
• Building on Prior Knowledge
• Meeting the Learning Needs of All Students
• Consider using “parallel tasks”
From the NCTM Good Questions
Books.
Next StepsGet started if you haven’t already on
your video and on your writing now!.
Scan & upload supplemental
materials.
Questions….
• What questions do you have now?
• If you have questions between webinars….
Martha [email protected]
Ruth [email protected]
Peggy [email protected]
Alma
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Conni [email protected]
• Thank you for joining us today for the PAEMST Webinar
presented by SEPA.
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