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Workshop Buildings/Rooms

Annotated Colorado School of Mines campus map (Acrobat (PDF) 986kB May11 23)

  • Green Center - daytime activities
    • Main meeting - room 224
    • Lunchroom 200F
    • Breakout areas - 200F, 224, open study spaces and not-reserved conference rooms (218, 220)
  • Maple Hall - lodging, Tuesday dinner, evening workspace if needed
  • Mines Market - breakfasts 7:00 am

Agenda

Sunday, June 4

The meeting begins in Green Center, room 224, at 4:00 pm. Please consult this annotated Colorado School of Mines campus map (Acrobat (PDF) 986kB May11 23) for the location of the Green Center and other buildings being used during the workshop.

If you arrive 1:00-3:45 pm, check in at Maple Hall first. If you arrive after 3:45 pm, come straight to the Green Center and you can check into the lodging after dinner.

Afternoon goal: Get to know each other more, exchange math ideas, and more module framing

Monday, June 5

Breakfast at Mines Market 7:00 am

Morning goal: Initiate module student landing pages

Afternoon goal: Initiate module instructor pages

  • 1:00 pm - Writing modules for all students
    • Accessibility Guidelines
      • Color Oracle app (or similar) can help you quickly identify color blindness related issues 
      • Use headings, alt-text (we will also check for this during editing)
    • Implicit bias - consider whether your questions are coming from a context that most students would understand
    • Style conventions
  • 1:20 pm - Introduction Why does the instructor page look the way it does? 
  • 1:30 pm - Work in module teams on drafting the instructor page (esp. learning outcomes)
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 3:15 pm - Work in module teams: What other resources are there that will help instructors teach this math concept or find activities that use this quantitative skill?  (Using Teach the Earth Search)
  • 3:45 pm - Gallery Tour: Why is it challenging to teach this topic: tips, tricks, and pitfalls
  • 4:45-5:00 pm - Wrap up and Roadcheck

Dinner - on your own / self-organized groups - suggestion to walk to Downtown Golden (see annotated map (Acrobat (PDF) 986kB May11 23); please notify leaders if you would prefer to have a ride instead of walk)

Tuesday, June 6

Breakfast at Mines Market 7:00 am

Morning goal: Continue developing modules

  • 7:45 am - Coffee/tea available in Green Center 224
  • 8:00 am - Overview of the day
  • 8:15 am - Module teams solicit input and whole-group provides feedback
    • Each module team has 3 minutes present challenges and 5 min to get feedback
  • 9:00 am -  Discussion of technology use (calculators, Excel/Sheets)
  • 9:15 am -  Continued module develop (particularly focused on feedback and preparing for afternoon rubric review) 
    • Read rubric and apply it to your own module - what aspects are most in need of adjustment?
      TAKE NOTES - don't make changes yet (focus on getting through the thinking part)
    •  Skip rubric elements - 10, 11, 12, 14 (not relevant yet)
    • Get info on what modules most likely to want to use.
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • 10:15 am - Consultations with workshop leaders and work on revisions
  • 11:15 am - Practice problems introduction / How to get practice problems from others?
    •  One person works on practice problem 1 and one works on revisions based on consultation
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch

Afternoon goal: Review and contribute to each other's modules

  • 1:30 pm - Finish up stuff from the morning
  • 2:20 pm - Read and review one other module -- use the comments and track changes features in Serckit
  • 3:15 pm - Break
  • 3:30 pm - Make revisions from reviews and finish practice problem 1
  • 4:00 pm - Practice problems sharing 
  • 4:45-5:00 pm - Wrap up and Roadcheck

6:00 pm - Group dinner at Maple Hall kitchen

  • 7:30 pm - Independent work on modules (or evening discussion on quantitative skills majors-level Earth science course)

Wednesday, June 7

Breakfast at Mines Market 7:00 am

Morning goal: Develop plans for teaching implementation and intro to WAMAP

  • 7:45 am - Coffee/tea available in Green Center 224
  • 8:00 am - Overview of the day/Roadcheck report/paperwork
  • 8:15 am - Develop individual teaching implementation plans 
    • Course, timing, potential activities
    • Consider how you will handle math anxiety and motivating students
  • 9:00 am - Small-group discussions on implementation plans (not in module teams)
  • 9:45 am - Report out on implementation plans (each small group mentions 2 take-aways)
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • 10:15 am - Refine individual teaching implementation plans 
  • 10:45 am - WAMAP and student data collection
  • 11:30 am - Individual or team investigation of WAMAP and searching for relevant existing problems
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch

Afternoon goal: Continue work on modules

  • 1:30 pm - Continue WAMAP investigation if needed; then module teams continue work on module pages (with break as needed)
  • 3:00 pm Break
  • 3:15 pm - Instructor resources
  • 3:45 pm - Keep going with most urgent
  • 4:40 pm - Departure logistics; getting reimbursed
  • 4:50 pm - Wrap up

Dinner - on your own / self-organized groups

Thursday, June 8

Breakfast at Mines Market 7:00 am

Morning goal: Action plans for remaining module development work and teaching implementation

  • 7:45 am - Coffee/tea available in Green Center 224
  • 8:00 am - Questions about the day 
  • 8:05 am - Making Team Action Plans 
  • (11:00 Packed lunches available)
  • 11:00 am - Whole group discussion
  • 11:30 am - Workshop evaluation survey
  • 11:45 am - People leaving on noon shuttle walk back to Maple Hall
  • 12:00 pm - Shuttle #1 departs
  • 3:00 pm - Shuttle #2 departs