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Preparing Tomorrow's Science and Math Teachers Summer
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Kapi'olani Community College's team - Mary Beard, Linda Kodama, Veronica Ogata, Louise Pagotto, and Joel Weiner of the University of Hawaii, Manoa - has completed the items in our action plan. Veronica and Louise have put together a new degree program for educational para-professionals. The new AS degree will help Hawaii meet the requirements for the President's No Child Left Behind initiative. Courses for the new program will be offered beginning fall 2003. The degree program itself will hopefully be approved and on the books within the year. Our new Math for Elementary Teachers I and II courses developed by Mary, with lots of help from Joel, is expected to be part of the new program. Joel, Neil Pateman, from the College of Education, and Mary have also been working on revising and reviving the pair of Math for Elementary Teachers courses offered several years ago at the University. The next step is to get articulation agreements for the two courses and to get the College of Education to require them for all pre-education majors. In preparation for developing and teaching the Math for Elementary Teachers courses, Mary and Linda attended AMATYC Summer Institutes for Teacher Preparation. Linda went to the institute in Green River, WA, after completing a reverse site visit to Green River Community College in June with mentors, Steve Kinholt, Green River Community College, and Bruce Palmquist, Central Washington University. Mary attended the institute in Grand Rapids, MI in July. They both returned to Hawaii with big smiles and lots of great ideas and manipulatives! Linda taught a class for Mary's liberal arts math class, testing activities and ideas from her institute.After seeing the students' reactions, Mary is eager to try similar activities in the new course. Mary and Linda also attended the AMATYC national conference in Phoenix. Veronica has been working on revising a course on tutoring for the pre-education and para-professional major. The course was approved last semester. To promote this course and the new math course, Mary, Linda, and Veronica developed flyers advertising the new courses, gave interviews to the school newspaper, and sent email notices to faculty and advisors. Despite all this hard work, neither class had high enough enrollments to hold for the spring 2003 semester. The team is not giving up, though. Several new ideas for recruitment of students into the courses have been discussed and the courses will be offered again in the fall 2003 semester. All in all this has been an exciting and busy time for the team. Mary Beard: mbeard@hawaii.edu
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