Professional Development

Register here for the 3-day institute:

Austin

• Austin: October 9-11, 2012 (Cancelled due to low enrollment)

NOTE: If you have already taken the three-day institute, click here to register for a follow-up session.

Advanced Quantitative Reasoning (AQR) / Advanced Mathematical Decision Making (AMDM) Institute

A three-day institute, 8am to 4pm, with yearlong access to a facilitated online community. Two optional follow-up days available separately.

NOTE: If you have already taken the three-day institute, click here to register for a follow-up session.

Fee for three-day professional development and yearlong online support: $850 per Texas teacher; $1,500 for each teacher from outside Texas

Advanced Quantitative Reasoning (AQR), also known as Advanced Mathematical Decision Making (AMDM), covers a range of mathematics topics, including statistics, finance, and other topics—all in applied contexts—while developing college- and career-readiness skills.

For more information about the course, including an overview of the course materials and a copy of the course outline with proposed student expectations, see the AQR website.

These professional development institutes are designed for teachers who will be teaching AQR/AMDM during the coming school year.

These institutes will be conducted by pairs of leaders: an experienced AQR/AMDM teacher and an experienced professional development provider. The leaders will model a teaching practice that challenges students with engaging problems and projects while also challenging them to assume responsibility for their learning.

As a participant, you will have the opportunity to experience many of the student activities and projects from four of the AQR / AMDM course's seven units from the perspectives of both a learner and a teacher. You will also discuss how to facilitate and assess student learning in this instructional model. (Participants who also register for the optional additional two days of follow up training will experience activities from the other three units.)

You will have the opportunity to network with teachers from other high schools and begin participating in a facilitated online community where teachers exchange ideas and access instructional resources and supports.

Participants in the institute will receive print and pdf copies of AQR student and teacher materials. To access the pdf materials and the online community during the institute, participants are required to bring their own laptop.

Advanced Quantitative Reasoning / Advanced Mathematical Decision Making course materials and professional development services were developed in cooperation with the Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics with generous development funding provided by the Greater Texas Foundation.