Aspiring Teachers to Hear Maine Learning Results Update
Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761
ORONO, Maine — The Maine Learning Results will be highlighted at the sixth annual Math and Science Future Teachers conference, taking place Saturday, April 1 at the University of Maine. The free event is open to Maine college and university students and to people considering changing careers to enter the math and science teaching profession.
The conference kicks off at 9 a.m. with a keynote address, “Departing from the 1997 Maine Learning Results? What the review of the state’s Learning Standards means for teachers and students,” by Anita Bernhardt, Maine Department of Education distinguished educator for the review of the Maine Learning Results. Bernhardt will also conduct a focus group session where conference participants can consider and provide feedback for revising the math and science section of the state’s learning standards.
Throughout the day, experienced educators will present workshops ranging from Dollar Store Science — How to Meet the Maine Science Learning Results on a Budget to Math Emerges as Big Hurdle for Teenagers! — How to Make Math and Science Exciting and Meaningful.
Other sessions will examine timely issues such as changing state and federal policies and regulations, and strategies for developing and managing classroom expectations, responsibilities and rules. Presenters represent public and private schools, UMaine, the University of Maine at Machias, the state Department of Education and the Challenger Learning Center of Maine.
The conference is sponsored by the Maine Mathematics-Science Teaching Excellence Collaborative, the National Science Foundation, and the UMaine College of Education and Human Development, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, and Student Government.
Media are welcome to attend the April 1 conference and interview participants. Events run from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the D.P. Corbett Business Administration Building. Media contacts at the conference are: Laura Bolstridge, president of the UMaine Math and Science Future Teachers Club; Amie Gellen, UMaine math educator and club advisor; and Robert Franzosa, UMaine professor of mathematics.