Summer 2009 Professional Development Offerings
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MathLINKS
July 28-30, 2009, plus followup in Fall 2009 and Spring-Fall 2010 TBD

Making Algebra Connections and Visuals That Teach Grades 5 - 9
Friday, Aug. 7, 9:00am - 3:30pm
Registration fee: $25 (non-refundable) includes lunch and break snacks, all workshop materials and 6 hours of ADE-approved PD. Investigate the standards and see how lower level math classes support the higher Algebra courses. Experience real world lessons for ratios and proportions, comparing numbers, writing inequalities, making tables, graphing and more. Make connections using data and geometry in algebra lessons. Time for creating Visuals That Teach (VTT) will be provided to create custom-made manipulatives. (NOTE: for VTT, materials to create the manipulatives can be purchase from CMASE or participants should bring cardstock, foam sheets, magnetic sheets, etc.

ASTA Minigrant Writing Workshop - Grades 5-8
Monday, August 10, 4:30pm -7:30pm
Registration Fee: $25 (non-refundable), includes supper, all workshop materials and 3 hours of ADE-approved PD. Be guided with "detail specific" suggestions regarding the online format as you create and finalize a $500 Minigrant proposal for consummables in your classroom. Leave having written your proposal with it ready for final review and/or submission. Please note, this workshop is for science teachers in grades 5-8 ONLY.

Solving Equations from AIMS - Grades 5-9
Saturday, Aug. 29, 9:00am - 3:30pm
Registration Fee: $25 (non-refundable), includes lunch and break snacks, all workshop materials and 6 hours of ADE-approved PD. Explore lessons and activities from this new AIMS teaching guide focusing on the 'big' ideas of equality and inverse operations needed for solving equations.  Engaging videos  that  introduce  the contextual situation relating to the problems  will also be viewed.

Can You Solve It? - Grades K-4
Saturday, Aug. 29, 9:00am - 3:30pm 
Registration Fee: $25 (non-refundable), includes lunch and break snacks, all workshop materials and 6 hours of ADE-approved PD. Introduce students to problem-solving strategies that 1) engage them in active, hands-on investigations and 2) allow them to apply number, measurement, computation, geometry, data organization, and algebra skills in problem-solving settings. Explore strategies such as: write a number sentence, look for patterns, work backwards, use manipulatives, draw out the problem, organize the information, guess and check, wish for an easier problem, and use logical thinking. Grade level appropriate books (K-1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th  grade) will be available for $25 each.

"Healthy Lung" - Grades 3-8
Friday, October 9, 12:15pm – 3:30pm
Join the UAMS Partners in Health Sciences (PIHS) program in this interactive workshop exploring activities that translate to the classroom. The workshop is designed to increase participant knowledge and understanding of the pulmonary components of the cardiopulmonary system and its major diseases, lung cancer and emphysema. The workshop is supported by a grant from the Arkansas Cancer Coalition and will be presented by Robert Burns, Ph.D., Director of the PIHS program and Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). All participants will receive three hours of ADE approved professional development and a resource kit valued at $150 containing: an illustrated syllabus (with laminated color images and CD of PowerPoint images for use with students), a plastic lung model, a lung demonstration apparatus, a sponge lung smoking kit, and an elastic band. While no registration fee will be charged, registration is required. To register, contact Lynne Hehr at 479/575-3875 or email: lhehr@uark.edu 

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