Supports for Science and Mathematics Learning in Pre-Kindergarten Dual Language Learners: Designing a Professional Development System

Three projects investigating different approaches to preparing mathematics professional development facilitators will compare their approaches and discuss strengths and limitations with the participants.
What are the central challenges that face research and development teams in their efforts to prepare facilitators to do the work of leading mathematics professional development?
Join your colleagues in the City of Brotherly Love for NSTA's 58th National Conference on Science Education. Conference registration and exhibits will be at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Most sessions and events have been scheduled at the Convention Center and the Doubletree Philadelphia Hotel, Loew’s Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, and Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel.
You are cordially invited to participate in the thirty-second Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA), to be held in Columbus, Ohio in October 28 to 31, 2010. The conference is sponsored by the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. The conference provides a forum for the exchange of research information on the psychology of mathematics education. English is the official language.