Establish and coordinate innovative inservice programs for mathematics teachers.
Objective
Mathematics Workshops
Teachers who attend the Reeves Center workshops will be able to use presented material in their classroom.
KPI
Inservice Workshops
A post-workshop evaluation will be conducted asking the participants for specific ideas that they can immediately employ in their classroom.
Result
Sponsored Workshops
One Reeves Center member has given workshops (in conjunction with our regional service center).
Action
Future Documentation Of Workshops
While we have had a Reeves Center member give workshops, no artifacts (surveys, correspondence) have been saved. This needs to be rectified next year.
Goal
Research
Sponsor research to improve school mathematics curriculum, teaching, and learning.
Objective
Research Conference
Mathematics Education instructors who attend the MERiT (Mathematics Education Research in Texas) conference will find other researchers to work with or clarify their research topics.
KPI
MERiT Conference
A post-conference evaluation will be conducted asking the participants asking them to identify collaborators or new research topics.
Result
Post Conference Evaluation
Conference evaluations are not available at this time.
Action
Hiatus For MERiT
There is going to be a one-year hiatus for the conference. There are two reasons for this:
The current conference director is in her last pre-tenure year and needs to direct her time and energies towards that goal. Having to direct the conference would distract her from that.
It would have certainly been possible to have someone else direct the conference but their were also timing issues - other mathematics education conferences are taking place this fall at various sites and travel as well as finding a good weekend for the conference became a problem.
We also feel that taking a hiatus will allow the mathematics education group to reflect on what we've done the past 5 or 6 years and think on whether or not we need to change our focus.