Professional Development

PROM/SE Michigan Spring 2005 Mathematics Associates Institute:

Content Trajectories, Instructional Materials and Curriculum Decisions

8:00 Registration

8:30 Welcome, Overview of the day and Review of the Agenda

1. Agenda
2. Characteristics of a Coherent Mathematical Trajectory

9:00 Identifying the “Big Ideas”: Trajectories for Content Areas

1. Elementary School Trajectory Overheads
2. Elementary School Trajectories for Fractions
3. Middle School Trajectory Overheads
4. Middle School Trajectories for Measurement
5. High School Trajectory Overheads
6. High School Trajectories for Algebra

10:00 Break

10:15 Instructional Materials and Content Trajectories

1. Elementary School Instructional Materials
2. Middle School Instructional Materials
3. High School Instructional Materials

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Mapping GLCE/Benchmarks to Instructional Materials

1. Elementary School GLCE Mapping
2. Middle School GLCE Mapping
3. High School Benchmark Mapping

2:45 Break

3:00 Reflecting on the Process and Next Steps