NCIM Teachers Expand Their Knowledge
The North Carolina Integrated Mathematics (NCIM) Project held a teacher workshop on September 29, 2009 at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. The workshop was a follow-up meeting to the summer two-week workshop in which teachers expanded their pedagogical content knowledge of the integrated high school mathematics curriculum, Core-Plus.
The 26 teachers from districts across the state attended sessions on vertex-edge graphs, geometric probability, using video to record and reflect on teaching practices, and analysis of student work.
Several schools—those participating directly in the research component of the NCIM project—receive additional support in the classroom throughout the year. They also received flip cams with which participating teachers will document their own classroom instruction and discuss it within their professional community and with their supporting content specialists. Those high schools are Bertie STEM, Duplin Early College, Jacket Academy, Roanoke Valley, Southern School of Engineering, Wayne School of Engineering, and Weldon STEM High School.
For more information and additional resources from North Carolina Integrated Mathematics Project, please visit their website.