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WHEN: Friday, 13 to Sunday, 15 September 2019 (Course 1) (8:00am - 3:30pm)
Friday, 6 to Sunday, 8 December 2019 (Course 2) (8:00am - 3:30pm)
Friday, 6 to Sunday, 8 March 2020 (Course 3)
The remaining Courses will be held in ISKL in the 2020/2021 school year
WHERE: ISKL Ampang Hilir Campus (MPR 1)
FEES: USD600 per Course DEADLINE FOR CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION: 30 AUGUST 2019
FOCUS: All K-8 Mathematic Teachers in International Schools REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 7 SEPTEMBER 2019
Workshop Overview
Workshop Overview
MSIS is a 2 year Mathematics Specialist program for K-8 teachers. The program is a coherent sequence of 5 Institutes designed to expand teachers' understanding of the Common Core Standards, how students learn that content, evidence of student understanding, and how to work with peers in a mentoring relationship.
The institutes are four three day face to face institutes.
Upon completion of the five institutes, participants will be awarded a Math Specialist certificate from the Office of Overseas Schools AERO Project.
Certificate Requirement
Certificate Requirement
Attend and participate in the five 3-day face-to-face institutes during the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 school years.
Registration Requirements and Process:
Registration Requirements and Process:
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution;
A valid Education Teaching License;
Currently employed teaching in an international school for a minimum of 3 years;
A letter of interest expressing a 2 year commitment to the project;
A letter of recommendation from a current school administrator
Please email the letters of interest and recommendation to Su-Yen Chan at sychan@iskl.edu.my. You will be notified within three days of submission.
Once approved please go ahead and register yourself or your team.
Registration is on first come first serve basis.
Course 1 (Numbers and Operations)
Course 1 (Numbers and Operations)
The focus is on the content and the mathematical practices which support the Numbers and Operations progressions of the AERO Standards. Attention will be given to ways of representing numbers, relationships between number systems, the meaning of operations and how they relate to one another, and computation within the number system as a foundation for algebraic thinking.
Erma Anderson
Erma Anderson
Erma Anderson is a former high school mathematics and physics teacher and Albert Einstein Distinguished Fellow in the United States Senate. As a Senior Program Officer with the Research Council, she assisted in the development of the National Science Education Standards. She is a Christa McAulliffe Fellow with the National Foundation for Improvement of Education and was a consultant with the Council for Basic Education's Schools Around the World Project, developing and implementing a protocol and series of professional development experiences that used student work to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics and science. More recently she has been a consultant with international schools and the AERO Mathematics and Science project.
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