Honoring her personal & professional contributions
Event Goals
In this event, we will:
Conduct three different sessions via Zoom Meetings to serve many time zones and honor Terry's global impact.
Bring together a community of those who worked with, and/or admired Terry's contributions to mathematics education.
Engage and collectively reflect on the past, present, and future impacts of Terry's mentorship and scholarship.
RSVP
Please use this link HERE or below to access the Google Form to let us know, tentatively, which sessions you will be attending.
We used Sutori to create a visual for Terry L. Wood Life & Work Timeline. Participants added events, special memories, and photos. Please use the link HERE to view the contributions.
If you wish to make a contribution to the Terry L. Wood scholarship dedicated to math education students' study abroad experiences at Purdue University, please click the link HERE. Thank you for supporting these students!
Log in - Chat/Network/Test connection
(15 minutes before start time)
Welcome & Overview (~20 minutes)
Stories from Christine Wood & Rob Wood (Terry's children)
Negotiation, Argumentation and Participation: Three basic concepts referring to everyday procedures in teaching and learning situations in mathematics classes (~30 minutes)
Götz Krummheuer, Professor Emeritus
This presentation starts with a reference to the project, The Coordination of a Psychological and Sociological Perspective, that was funded by the Spencer Foundation. The results of the research in this project are published in the book, The Emergence of Mathematical Meaning, edited by Cobb and Bauersfeld (1995). Among others, Terry Wood and I were members of the research team and I reflect in this presentation on the various discussions that Terry and I had during that time. One of our major discussions was about the possibilities of altering everyday procedures in mathematics teaching and learning situations with regard to improving the learning results. Sadly, without Terry’s feedback, I present my insights about this question which is based on the micro-sociological background of interactionism and ethnomethodology and include further results of my later research.
Discussion (includes breakout rooms)
(~20 minutes)
Panel: Early Collaborations (~30 minutes)
Facilitated by Erna Yackel
Panelists: Barbara Jaworski, Graceann Merkel, Janell Uerkwitz
This panel comprises colleagues and teachers who worked closely with Terry during the early year of her academic career at Purdue. Many were involved with Terry on research projects. All were engaged in extensive discussions about classroom teaching and learning with Terry and developed strong relationships with her, both personal and professional.
Closure & Stories (~20 minutes)
Log in - Chat/Network/Test connection
(15 minutes before start time)
Welcome
(~20 minutes)
Legacy of Terry Wood: Terry as Mentor, Teacher, Colleague, Scholar, Friend (~30 minutes)
Facilitated by Carla Gerberry and Lindsay Keazer
This session focuses on Terry in her many valued roles including mentor, teacher, scholar, friend, advocate, and others. The panel comprises former graduate students who share stories of their experiences with Terry and her impact on them as teachers and scholars.
Discussion (includes breakout rooms)
(~20 minutes)
Terry’s Work - Looking Back, Looking Forward (~30 minutes)
Facilitated by Guadalupe Carmona
Panelists: AnnaMarie Conner and Margret Hjalmarson
We hear from current scholars in the field, reflecting on Terry’s work then and now: How did Terry and colleagues’ early work shape and push the field? And how does Terry’s collective work continue to have an impact? Scholars share the impact on their own work as well as their perspectives on the impact on mathematics education.
Closure & Stories & Music
(~20 minutes)
Reflect on the session and enjoy some ditties by members of the former The Professiing Bulls of Purdue!
Log in - Chat/Network/Test connection
(15 minutes before start time)
Welcome
(~20 minutes)
Mentorship and Collegiality in the Development of Ideas (~30 minutes)
Gaye Williams, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
In this session, Gaye shares stories about Terry’s mentorship and colleagueship, as well as insights into Terry’s international work, collaborations and impact. From these stories, we gain new understandings of how, for Terry, the professional and personal were inseparable; and mentorship to the field meant investing in beginning scholars.
Discussion (includes breakout rooms)
(~20 minutes)
Teacher Educator and International Scholar - Later work and Looking forward
(~30 minutes)
Panelists: Betsy Berry, Bobbie Hunter, Konrad Krainer
This panel comprises international scholars who worked closely with Terry in a variety of capacities with a focus on her work as a mathematics teacher educator.
Christine Wood & Rob Wood (Terry's children)
Closure
(~20 minutes)
Terry's Published Works
Please use this link HERE to view all of Terry's published works, cited and linked.
Contact
Please reach out to Jill Newton (janewton@purdue.edu) or Megan Staples (megan.staples@uconn.edu) with any questions, comments, or concerns!
"Educators acknowledge that for children to develop their conceptual understanding of mathematics, changes in existing classroom practices are required....The envisioned changes...rely not only on teachers' knowledge of children's mathematical thinking but also on their knowledge of the social, interactive, and discursive processes that underlie the creation of appropriate contexts for children's conceptual development in mathematics."
Terry Wood, 1999 (pp. 189-190)
“For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
Maya Angelou