UIC-CC CETP

UIC—Community College Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation

2000–2001
Institute for Developing Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Science and Mathematics

There were several other joint sessions of the workshops, including a panel on cooperative learning by three faculty who have used cooperative learning effectively in their teaching, and an extended discussion about the evaluation procedures for the AY.

Sixteen faculty participated in the science workshop and fourteen participated in the math workshop.  The combined distributions by institution are: UIC (7), Oakton (3), Washington (3), Truman (1), Harper(3), Triton (6), and Olive-Harvey (7).  Arrangements for course credit and payment of stipends is the same as last year.

Teaching Science Workshop:
The workshop was organized and run by the same six-member faculty team as last year.  The 16 participants came from 6 of the 7 Collaborative institutions: UIC (4), Oakton (2), Washington (2), Harper (1), Triton (3), and Olive-Harvey (4).

Although the program followed a similar format as last year's, the themes were somewhat revised.  This year's themes were: Making Meaning; Relationships Among Science Knowledge, Experiences, and Standards; Looking at Course Syllabi; Instruction- Cooperative Learning; Assessment and Instruction- Concept Maps and Portfolios; Change Over Time and Diversity in the Classroom; Evaluation and Assessment.  Each day several articles were assigned as reading in preparation for the following day's program.  Participants had the opportunity to try out the Inspiration software for developing concept maps.

Teaching Mathematics Workshop:
The workshop was organized and run by Philip Wagreich, Dept of MSCS, UIC, Erick Smith, Mathematics Education, College of Education, Mercedes McGowen, Dept of Mathematics, Harper College, and Margaret Small, IMP Project, UIC.  The 14 participants came from all 7 Collaborative institutions: UIC (3), Oakton (1), Washington (1), Harper (2), Triton (3), and Olive-Harvey (3).

This year's workshop theme was teaching algebra.  The sessions focused on cooperative learning rooted in solving problems from high school level algebra, although often participants extended the mathematical content. Problems were selected from classroom materials including materials from the Interactive Mathematics Program, TIMS laboratory experiments, and workshop materials for a developmental math course and an intermediate algebra course.  The group read and discussed the Grades 9-12 standards in the NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and the Illinois State Standards for algebra, and reviewed selected test items from a final exam for a traditional course and a college placement exam and critiqued them with respect to these standards.  Graphing was one focus topic of the workshop, including using graphing calculators to find curves of best fit for experimentally generated data.  The activities often lead to in-depth, lively discussions about different ways to conceptualize the problem and the solutions.

AY Activities:
The science faculty and the math faculty participated in four meetings in the academic year.  One of the meetings was a joint meeting of the two groups.

Participants:

• Mohammad Ashraf, Biology Dept, Olive-Harvey
• John Baldwin, Math Dept, UIC
• Elizabeth Brindise, Science Dept, Triton College
• Rodrigo Carramiñana, Math Dept, UIC
• Addie Davis, Math Dept, Olive-Harvey College
• Cheryl Dias, Biology Dept, Harold Washington College
• Arthur N. Divito, Math Dept, Harold Washington College
• Sharon Fetzer Gislason, Chemistry Dept, UIC
• Tom Firak, Biology Dept, Oakton Community College
• Audrey Hammerich, Chemistry Dept, UIC
• Luke Hanley, Chemistry Dept, UIC
• Julia Hassett, Math. Dept, Oakton Community College
• C. Jimmy Hsiao, Math Dept, Truman College
• Glenn Jablonski, Math Dept, Triton College
• Hassan Kahvand, Physical Science Dept, Olive-Harvey College
• Myrna LaRosa, Math Dept, Triton College
• Brian D. Leonard, Math Dept, Triton College
• Kathryn L. Leonard, Chemistry Dept, Triton College
• Dan Loprieno, Math Dept, Harper College
• Robert Lyon, Physical Science Dept, Harold Washington College
• Robert Olsson, Science Dept, Triton College
• Antonio Pagnamenta, Physics Dept, UIC
• Uri N. Peled, MSCS Dept, UIC
• Nancy Rice, Math Dept, Harper College
• Sylvester Roebuck, Math Dept, Olive-Harvey College
• Preet Saluja, Chemistry, Oakton Community College
• Rajashree Sen, Physical Science Dept., Olive-Harvey College
• Daniel S. Stanford, Chemistry, William Rainey Harper College
• Robin Wucherer, Math Dept, Olive-Harvey College
• David Zoller, Physical Science Dept, Olive-Harvey College

• Joe Becker, School of Education, UIC
• Yvonne Harris, Department of Biology, Harry S. Truman College
• Carole Mitchener, School of Education, UIC
• Maria Varelas, School of Education, UIC
• Donald Wink, Department of Chemistry, UIC

• Mercedes McGowen, Math Dept, William Rainey Harper College
• Margaret Small, IMP, UIC
• Erick Smith, College of Education, UIC
• Philip Wagreich, Dept of MSCS, UIC