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Face-to-Face and Cyberspace
Retreat for CSU Mathematics Educators
Asilomar Conference Center
10-12 April 2002
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Conference Agenda
Wednesday, April 10
Time Location Activity/Speaker
3:00+ Main Lodge Room check in
4:30-6:00 Kiln Registration
6:00-7:00 Crocker Dinner
7:15-8:30 Kiln

Welcome and Keynote I
Betsy Keane (California Commission on Teacher Credentialing)
Changing Standards for the Preparation of Teachers of Mathematics
The mathematical preparation of future elementary teachers is being governed by the recently adopted Elementary Subject Matter Program Standards. Following in their footsteps are the anticipated changes to the Standards for the Subject Matter Requirements for Mathematics Programs. This session will summarize the major changes in elementary teacher preparation requirements, provide an update on the single subject mathematics standards development, and introduce some ways in which mathematics and mathematics education faculty can participate in the further refinement of the latter emerging standards.
Thursday, April 11
Time Location Activity/Speaker
7:00-8:00 Crocker Breakfast
8:15-9:00 Kiln Participant Introductions
Carol Fry Bohlin (Fresno)
9:00-9:20 Kiln Blended Programs Opening Comments
Jorgen Berglund (Bakersfield) and facilitators of Breakout #1
Breakout #swill be a discussion of issues raised in the planning
and implementation of blended programs.
9:30-10:30 Breakout #1
Kiln Session A: Secondary Blended Programs
Edith Mendez (Sonoma) & Larry Sowder Diego)
Triton Session B: Liberal Studies Blended Programs
Maria Czech (Northridge) & Gwen Fisher (San Luis Obispo)
Curlew Session C: Liberal Studies Blended Programs
Jerry Beer (Los Angeles) & Peggy Kelly (San Marcos)
10:45-11:45 Kiln Let's Do Some Mathematics!
Scott Farrand (Sacramento)
12:00-12:45 Crocker Lunch
1:00-2:30 Breakout #2
Breakouts #2 and 3 will consist of the presentation of specific
course/ program materials offered at campuses, followed by discussion.
These "Learning & Teaching" sessions, designed to encourage communication
between mathematicians and mathematics educators, focus on both content
and methods with respect to a given domain/program.
Kiln Session A: Learning & Teaching - Number Sense (K-8)
Rita Johnson (Sacramento)
Triton Session B: Learning & Teaching - Algebra & Functions (K-8)
Jorgen Berglund (Bakersfield) & Bob Stein (San Bernardino)
Curlew Session C: Learning & Teaching - for the Supplement/Concentration
in Mathematics
Dale Oliver (Humboldt)
Marlin Session D: Learning & Teaching - Secondary Mathematics
Eliza Berry (Chico)
3:00-4:30 Breakout #3
Curlew Session A: Learning & Teaching - Measurement & Geometry (K-8)
Carol Langbort & Judy Kysh (San Francisco)
Triton Session B: Learning & Teaching - Statistics, Data Analysis & Probability (K-8)
Agnes Tuska (Fresno)
Kiln Session C: Learning & Teaching - Supplementary Authorization,
Concentration in Mathematics
Lindsay Tartre & Shuhua An (Long Beach)
Marlin Session D: Learning & Teaching - Secondary Mathematics
Kevin Callahan & Kathy Hahn (Hayward)
4:30-6:00 Break
6:00-7:00 Crocker Dinner
7:15-8:30 Kiln Keynote II
Randy Philipp & Larry Sowder (Center for Research in Mathematics & Science
Education, San Diego State University)

Innovations in K-8 Mathematics Teacher Preparation
In two major projects at San Diego State University, we have tried to improve the mathematical preparation of prospective elementary school teachers (PSTs). The first was a curriculum development project funded to restructure the four mathematics content courses for PSTs. We will describe these courses. The second project was funded as a research and development project to integrate mathematics and pedagogy for PSTs. We will describe this project designed to change prospective elementary school teachers' beliefs about mathematics and to maximize their mathematics learning by providing them with opportunities to think about children's mathematical thinking. We will introduce a Mathematical Early Field Experience course developed and currently used at SDSU as part of the Blended program of content and pedagogy for liberal studies majors. We will briefly describe instruments we developed for measuring beliefs and content, and we will share some data from our research study. We will also show videoclips of children engaged in mathematical thinking and discuss how we use these videoclips with our PSTs.

8:30-10:00 Kiln No-host social

Friday, April 12
Time Location Activity/Speaker
7:00-8:15 Crocker Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Kiln Whole group debriefing of Thursday's discussions.
Sharon Ross (Chico)
9:00-10:15 Kiln Problem Solving: Current Issues of Interest to CSU Faculty
Joanne Becker, Cheryl Roddick & Julie Sliva (San Jose)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45 Kiln Professional Networks for CSU Mathematics Educators
Rajee Amarasinghe (Fresno), Nadine Bezuk (San Diego), Carol Fry Bohlin (Fresno); and Mike Contino (Hayward)
11:45-12:00 Kiln Retreat Wrap-up; Evaluation
12:00-1:00 Crocker Lunch