Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT March 6, 2019 (For Administrators)
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT March 7, 2019 (For Teachers)
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT March 8, 2019 (For Teachers)

Location: Mississippi Construction Education Foundation (MCEF) Classrooms
5165 Old Brandon Road, Pearl, MS 39208

Description: The goals for the workshop are to: (a) expose teachers and administrators to common misunderstandings and instructional strategies for teaching expressions and equations through student work (IES Algebra Practice Guide Recommendations 1 and 2); (b) help teachers and administrators learn how to teach students to evaluate and compare different strategies for solving problems (Algebra Recommendation 3); (c) model for teachers and administrators how to monitor and reflect on the discussion process to articulate the reasoning behind strategy choice and identify which strategy presented the most efficient means of obtaining the solution (Algebra Recommendation 3.2); (d) provide teachers and administrators with a listing of resources supported by the What Works Clearinghouse and the National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics; and (e) provide opportunities for participants to ask clarifying questions.

Event recruitment is being handled by the Office of Secondary Education in the Mississippi Department of Education.

Research Alliance: Improving Instruction of Mathematics Research Alliance

Audience: The audience will include in-service teachers and administrators working in public schools in the state of Mississippi. Teachers and administrators who attend this event are working primarily at the middle school level in the state of Mississippi. District-level curriculum supervisors and school-level teacher leaders will also be in attendance.

Speakers: Tim Jacobbe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Education
University of Florida