Second Faculty Seminar of Spring 2018-2019 Term
Faculty of Education Spring 2018-2019 Faculty Seminars will be continuing with Assoc. Prof. Anna Conner's work titled "Supporting Teachers in Teaching Mathematics, Science, and Coding through Argumentation" on March 8, 2019. The language of the presentation will be English, and it will be held at EF 506 at 13:00 pm.
Abstract:
Current policy documents across disciplines and across nations call for incorporating appropriate argumentation into teaching at all levels. In this talk I will describe how a group of researchers has built on a framework for supporting argumentation in mathematics at the secondary level to engage teachers at the primary level in teaching mathematics, science, and coding (computer programming and robotic) using argumentation. I will describe the framework, giving some background on its development. I will then describe a professional development course currently being taught and present preliminary results from two primary teachers' classrooms with respect to their engagement of students in coding and argumentation.
Monday, 4 March 2019
