Dana Center's Annual Mathematics and Science Higher Education Conference (October Conference)
November 17–19, 2005
The 2005 conference, "Teacher Quality in Support of High Standards," offered sessions that focused on improving teacher quality as a step toward ensuring that all students are college-ready after high school graduation. Sessions addressed concerns of faculty who are involved in the preparation and support of either preservice or inservice teachers, and faculty who teach mathematics or science courses especially for incoming college students.
We are very pleased to announce that the Dana Center is now the home of the statewide Teacher Quality program, so this year's conference also included sessions for Teacher Quality grant recipients—both current and past awardees as well as those who may want to apply in the future.
The traditional audience for the Dana Center October Conference has been mathematics faculty in two- and four-year colleges and universities in Texas. This year we also invited science faculty who were interested in ensuring teacher quality by working with either preservice or inservice teachers. We especially invited faculty who were offering Type B Teacher Quality training for teachers through the Texas Higher Education Coordination Board funding, as well as those who planned to apply for funding in the upcoming year.
Invitation (pdf 68kb)
Agenda (pdf 522kb)
Selected presentations from the 2005 conference:
Thursday, November 17
James A. Mendoza Epperson, University of Texas at Arlington. Mathematical Common Ground: Teacher Quality and College Readiness (pdf 504kb).
Friday, November 18
Laura McGiffert-Slover, Achieve, and Gloria White, Charles A. Dana Center. College-Ready Students: Working Together for Success (pdf 1.3mb).
Susan Hudson Hull, Charles A. Dana Center. Teacher Quality for All: Essential Interactions of Higher Education Faculty, Teachers, and Districts (pdf 260kb).
Kaye Forgione, Achieve. Achieve's American Diploma Project: A Preview (pdf 688kb).
Gloria White, Managing Director, Charles A. Dana Center. Research Studies Used to Set College Readiness TAKS Scores (pdf 476kb).
Connie H. Yarema, Abilene Christian University. Pulling It All Together for Preservice Teachers: In-Depth Secondary Mathematics, TQ Algebra I, and TQ Algebra II (pdf 140kb). Handouts from the presentation (pdf 532kb).
Saturday, November 19
Donald French, Oklahoma State University and President, Society for College Science Teachers. Best Practices in Introductory College Science Teaching: A Perspective from the Society for College Science Teaching (pdf 2.7mb).
Gloria White, Managing Director, Charles A. Dana Center. Updates and News from the State and National Level (pdf 1.2mb).
Cynthia Schneider, Charles A. Dana Center, and Max Coleman, Sam Houston State University. Mathematical Modeling with Applications Across the Curriculum (pdf 6.3mb).
Eileen Faulkenberry and Thomas Faulkenberry, Texas A&M University. Using Teacher Quality Materials with Inservice and/or Preservice Teachers: Geometry (pdf 92kb).
Uri Treisman, Mathematics Professor and Director, Charles A. Dana Center. Closing presentation (pdf 400kb).