Join a Free Webinar on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Are you interested in learning how mathematical and scientific thinking and problem solving are addressed in the classroom? What about how teachers’ knowledge of a subject influences classroom instruction and inspires students to learn and think about math and science?
The Global Partnership for Education’s March webinar will feature Dr. Emma Näslund-Hadley, Lead Education Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She will share findings from a video study that went inside 582 sixth-grade math and science classrooms in three countries: Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, and the state of Nuevo Leon in Mexico. The study also looked at how inquiry-based learning influences classroom instruction.
In her study, Naslund-Hadley analyzed videotapes from hundreds of classes and then identified culturally common practices and routines. The analysis showed that some of the teaching practices observed can be built upon, while others obstruct learning. In the webinar, Naslund-Hadley will show how insights from the study can stimulate further discussions about how to positively impact math and science teaching practices around the world.
Access the webinar through Adobe Connect at 10:00 am EST/ 3.00 pm (GMT):
http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/numeracywebinar/
(Click on the “Enter as Guest” option, enter your full name in the text field and then click the “Enter Room” button.)
The webinar series is part of a Community of Practice on Numeracy facilitated by the Global Partnership for Education. The community of practice is open to teachers, educators, practitioners, researchers, academics and others interested in numeracy.
Join the community of practice on ‘Numeracy for Development’ here.
All webinars are at 10am EST (3pm GMT) and typically fall on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule for upcoming webinars:
- April 3rd, 2013 – Abigail Bucuvalas, Sesame Workshop – Sesame Workshop’s Numeracy work
- May 8th, 2013 -Nadia Nosworthy, University of Western Ontario – The relationship between arithmetic achievement and symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing in primary school
- June 5th, 2013 – Linda M. Platas, University of California Berkeley – Early Childhood Development and numeracy
- July 10th, 2013 – Steve Leinwand, American Institutes for Research – What we know about high quality instruction and need to see in all math classes
- August 7th, 2013 – Luis Crouch, Global Partnership for Education – Economic Development Arguments for Numeracy
- September 4th, 2013 – Aarnout Brombacher – Developing Number Sense, Experiences from Classrooms
- October 2nd, 2013 – Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Southern Methodist University – Review of the EGMA data from a psychometric perspective
- November 6th, 2013 – Kamal Hearth, Plan Sri Lanka – Boosting Mathematics Skills Through Play-Based Learning in Sri-Lanka
- December 4th, 2013 – Meera Tendolkar – Pratham’s ‘learning camp’ model- a non-linear approach to explore how children best learn math in India
If you have specific expertise in numeracy and would like to present in a webinar, please contact Deepa Srikantaiah at dsrikantaiah@globalpartnership.org.
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