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Saint Joseph College – Progress Report

• Principal Investigator: Ekaterina Lioutikova
• Topic of Minigrant: Develop a newmathematics course specifically for pre-service elementary teachers
• Duration of Minigrant: December 15, 2003 - December 15, 2005
• Date for Visit by PMET Monitor, given by PI: We plan to offer the course in the Spring 2005, but the schedule is yetto be determined. A mid-semester visit (March 2005) will probably be the most beneficial.

Activities and Progress

1. Activity: monthly dialog and planning sessions in Spring 2004. Progress: the project participants (mathematics faculty, education faculty, and public school teacher) met monthly to discuss the course content,activities and materials. We identified topics to be included, teaching strategies and activities to be employed, manipulatives to be purchased. We determined how to align the topics of the mathematics content course with the topics of the mathematics methods course. Tom Lucey conducted a survey of in-service elementary school teachers about the mathematicalcontent that needs to be addressed in courses for future teachers. Ekaterina Lioutikova visited a local elementary public school to become familiar with the current curriculum materials and to research mathematics software available to teachers. These activities also serve a larger goal of developing collaboration between mathematics and education faculty, and between college faculty and public school teachers.
2. Activity: course development in Summer 2004. Progress: Ekaterina Lioutikova reviewed curriculum materials for future teachers (textbooks, case studies, videos, etc.) as well as current literature related to mathematical education of teachers. A syllabus for the new course was developed; key reading assignments and projects were identified. E. Lioutikova also examined Trailblazers (elementary curriculum materials) and selected activities from Trailblazers to be incorporated in the college course. This work will continue through the end of August 2004.
3. Activity: networking Progress: Ekaterina Lioutikova attended a PMET workshop at SUNY-Stony Brook in June 2004 and the MAA Math Fest in August 2004, including a PMET mini-course and sessions on innovative approaches in mathematics education.