Professional Development opportunities
for Mathematics Teachers in Massachusetts
Professional Development providers are welcome to submit a description of their upcoming professional development programs. MassMATE will place the information below.
Please note that by listing a Professional Development opportunity on this page, MassMATE does not imply endorsement of the program or the provider.
Current Opportunities
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Mathematics and Computer Science (MACS) Collaborative at Bridgewater State College
The Mathematics and Computer Science (MACS) Collaborative at Bridgewater State College has a proud twenty-two year history of providing meaningful professional development for area mathematics educators. It is the Collaborative’s goal to provide opportunities for teachers to see the “big picture” of improved mathematics teaching and learning through experiences that broaden and deepen their own understanding of mathematics concepts and effective pedagogy.
Each year, MACS develops a series of workshops based upon a carefully selected and relevant theme. This year’s theme is Manipulatives and Modeling Make Math Meaningful.
Each of the four seminars presented this school year offer four sessions for teachers to choose from based on their grade level (PreK-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-12). Most of the sessions are presented in two parts and focus on a particular strand of the Massachusetts Mathematics framework, allowing teachers to take the learning back to their classrooms before reconvening for a follow-up session. The grades 9-12 sessions this year will also offer workshops on Moodle and Accuplacer.
The dates for the 2009-2010 seminars are November 12, January 14, March 11, and April 8.
The seminars begin at 4:00 p.m. (registration is at 3:30) and end at 7:00, followed by dinner from 7:00 to 8:00.
For additional program and registration information, please visit the MACS Website: 
Seeking Massachusetts Algebra Teachers!
Helping Teachers to Use and Students to Learn from Contrasting Examples: A Scale-up Study in Algebra I, a research project funded by the National Science Foundation.
Are you interested in thinking about teaching approaches that can help students succeed in algebra? If so, we are looking for Algebra I teachers in public schools in Massachusetts to participate in a research project. With the support of the National Science Foundation, researchers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education have created supplemental curriculum materials for use in an Algebra I course. Teachers in the Boston area are using these materials in 2009-2010; we would like your help in more formally evaluating these materials in the coming years.
Our curriculum supplements can be used with any Algebra I curriculum, are easy to use, and will have little effect on teachers' ability to cover the mandated algebra curriculum. Teachers who currently use our materials report that the curriculum supplements are interesting, engaging, and help students learn important topics in algebra.
What will you do? Participating Algebra I teachers will attend a free one-week professional development institute at Harvard University during the summer and then implement our curriculum supplements (along with your regular curriculum) throughout the Algebra I course.
Teachers will be paid an honorarium both for the summer institute and for their implementation of our curriculum supplements throughout the year.
Interested or want more information? Contact Dr. Jon Star at compare@gse.harvard.edu or 617-496-2511.
Secific teaching assignments for 2010-2011 will not be known for many months. If youa re interested in this project and think you might be teaching Algebra I in 2010-2011, please contact us!
Collaborative Project at Salem State College (CPMSIE)
The Collaborative Project is a cooperative venture among more than one thousand individuals with representation from schools, colleges, businesses and industries, centered on the North Shore of Boston. The goal of this alliance of member schools and school districts with a student population of over 62,000 is to make schools more competitive in mathematics, science and technology education.
Since the beginning in 1983, the Collaborative Project has produced a variety of high quality events including all-day courses, after-school teacher group meetings and seminars, a video library, a telecommunication network, the annual Women in Science and Engineering Conference (W.I.S.E.) for girls in grades 6-8l, and local curriculum development sessions. We hold to extremely high standards in selecting workshop presenters; they are screened by teacher group leaders and the Collaborative Project staff to get the best possible talent for the topics teachers have requested.
You can learn more about the Collaborative on their Website:
The following schools and school districts are members of the Collaborative Project for the 2009-2010 school year:
Academy of Strategic Learning - Amesbury |
Our Lady of the Assumption – Lynnfield Peabody Public Schools Pingree School Reading Public Schools Salem Academy Salem Public Schools Saugus Public Schools SEEM Collaborative St. John the Baptist – Peabody St. John the Evangelist – Beverly St. John’s Prep St. Mary’s School - Melrose St. Mary’s Jr./Sr. High School – Lynn Stoneham Public Schools Tower School Triton Regional School District Wakefield Public Schools Wilmington Public Schools Woburn Public Schools |
