NCTM 2011 Regional Conferences & Expositions
NCTM 2011 Regional Conferences & Expositions
NCTM Regional Conferences offer more than 200 presentations as well as exhibits with the latest tools and resources for your classroom. Take the time to invest in yourself; plan for the future and make 2011 a rewarding year for YOU! Registration opens in April, but for now we've got the essentials to help you make your professional development plans.
ITEST and COSEE Curriculum Development - Webinar
Research on Student Understanding of Data Organization
How do they work with complex and unstructured data?
NCTM Regional Conferences offer more than 200 presentations as well as exhibits with the latest tools and resources for your classroom. Take the time to invest in yourself; plan for the future and make 2011 a rewarding year for YOU! Registration opens in April, but for now we've got the essentials to help you make your professional development plans.
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org), a
NSF-funded project of the School of Teaching and Learning, College of
Education and Human Ecology, has been awarded the AAAS Science Prize for
Online Resources in Education (SPORE). Launched in March of 2008, Beyond
Penguins and Polar Bears consists of 20 thematic issues relating elementary
science concepts to the real-world context of the polar regions. Beyond
Penguins and Polar Bears presents science content for topics such as rocks
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has just released The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009. The 2009 science report presents results for students in grades 4, 8, and 12. National results for each of the three grades are based on representative samples of public and private school students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense schools. State results are reported separately for fourth- and eighth-grade public school students from 46 states and the Department of Defense schools.
Education Opportunities in NASA STEM (EONS) Workshop will be held January 20, 2011 at the Westin in Washington, D.C.
For more information on this workshop or to read more about other NASA opportunities and solicitations, visit the EONS page on the NSPIRES website. Go to http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and click on Solicitations, then on Open Solicitations.
Report Identifies Instruments for Measuring Student Engagement
This report reviews the characteristics of 21 instruments that measure student engagement in upper elementary through high school. It summarizes what each instrument measures, describes its purposes and uses, and provides technical information on its psychometric properties.
