Coding Connections at the Interface of Algebra I and Physical World Concepts
Tennessee Tech University is offering Coding Connections through an Improving Teacher Quality Grant award. Nineteen teachers have been selected to receive training focused on computer programming and robotics with specific connections to Algebra I and Physical World Concepts. Partner school districts include Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Cumberland, Knox, McMinn, Morgan, Oak Ridge Schools, Oneida, Roane, Sevier, and Williamson. The project includes a two-week summer institute and one follow-up Saturday Fall 2016 held at Roane State in Oak Ridge. Participants will receive professional development aimed to improve their math and science content and pedagogical knowledge with a focus on best practices for instruction as required by the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model for evaluating practicing teachers. Math content and practices and physical science content as well as science and engineering practices will be aligned with computer science and computational thinking practices to help address 21st Century challenges for improving critical thinking and communication skills. Coding Connections will use the Python programming language with sensors and robots created using Lego® Mindstorms® to bridge the interface between the mathematics of Algebra 1 and real-world problems of Physical World Concepts.
Teacher participants will receive:
$75 daily stipend
Lego® Mindstorms® EV3 Core Sets with sensors
hands-on manipulatives and publications geared for Algebra I and physical science instruction
Teacher participants are expected to:
develop professional learning communities during the institute and communicate and collaborate using an online wikispace portal
design and implement coding and robotics lessons in their own classes that reflect the Coding Connections ideology
plan at least one local, regional, or state workshop on the use of coding or robotics embedded in Algebra I and Physical World Concepts
be observed teaching during Fall 2016 by Project Director
share TEAM evaluation scores and student test data for 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 school years with the project directors.
All training will be held at Roane State Community College in Oak Ridge
8:30-3:30 (11:30-12:30 lunch on your own) June 13-June 16 June 20-June 23 Sept. 10
Instructors Dr. Leslie Suters - Co-Project Director TN Tech University, Curriculum & Instruction lsuters@tntech.edu
Dr. Adam Anderson - Co-Project Director TN Tech University, Electrical and Computer Engineering aanderson@tntech.edu
Dr. Henry Suters - Instructor Carson-Newman University, Mathematics and computer science hsuters@cn.edu
Feel free to request membership to the Coding for the Core: Computer Programming and Middle Grades Common Core Mathematics Wiki
Summer 2015 ITQ This wiki houses resources for programming with Lego Mindstorms EV3 software https://codingforthecore.wikispaces.com/
Coding Connections at the Interface of Algebra I and Physical World Concepts
Tennessee Tech University is offering Coding Connections through an Improving Teacher Quality Grant award. Nineteen teachers have been selected to receive training focused on computer programming and robotics with specific connections to Algebra I and Physical World Concepts. Partner school districts include Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Cumberland, Knox, McMinn, Morgan, Oak Ridge Schools, Oneida, Roane, Sevier, and Williamson. The project includes a two-week summer institute and one follow-up Saturday Fall 2016 held at Roane State in Oak Ridge. Participants will receive professional development aimed to improve their math and science content and pedagogical knowledge with a focus on best practices for instruction as required by the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model for evaluating practicing teachers. Math content and practices and physical science content as well as science and engineering practices will be aligned with computer science and computational thinking practices to help address 21st Century challenges for improving critical thinking and communication skills. Coding Connections will use the Python programming language with sensors and robots created using Lego® Mindstorms® to bridge the interface between the mathematics of Algebra 1 and real-world problems of Physical World Concepts.
Teacher participants will receive:
Teacher participants are expected to:
All training will be held at Roane State Community College in Oak Ridge
8:30-3:30 (11:30-12:30 lunch on your own)
June 13-June 16
June 20-June 23
Sept. 10
Instructors
Dr. Leslie Suters - Co-Project Director
TN Tech University, Curriculum & Instruction
lsuters@tntech.edu
Dr. Adam Anderson - Co-Project Director
TN Tech University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
aanderson@tntech.edu
Dr. Henry Suters - Instructor
Carson-Newman University, Mathematics and computer science
hsuters@cn.edu
Feel free to request membership to the Coding for the Core: Computer Programming and Middle Grades Common Core Mathematics Wiki
Summer 2015 ITQ
This wiki houses resources for programming with Lego Mindstorms EV3 software
https://codingforthecore.wikispaces.com/