AERO Math - Erma Anderson - Near East South Asia Council of Overseas

AERO Common Core Plus 2-Day Pre-Conference in Mathematics (HS): March 29-30

Royal Orchid Sheraton, Bangkok, Thailand

Erma Anderson

Science & Mathematics Consultant, including with the U.S. State Department's Office of Overseas Schools.

Full Bio

Full Bio

ERMA ANDERSON is a former high school physics and mathematics teacher and Albert Einstein Distinguished Fellow in the US Senate. She was a Senior Program Officer with the National Research Council assisting in the development of the National Science Education Standards and a Christa McAuliffe Fellow with the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education.

She has worked with the National Science Teachers Association on several projects including, the Mentoring Initiative e-Mentoring for Student Success (eMSS), development of sciLINKS (www.sciLINKS.org) and Project Manager of Scope, Sequence and Coordination of Secondary School Science.

She was an advisor to the Council for Basic Education’s Schools Around the World project, developing and implementing the Evidence to Excellence protocol and a series of professional development activities that use student work from nine participating countries to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics and science. Ms Anderson worked with the Council in the writing of state and district curriculum frameworks and benchmarking state standards to NAEP and designing a tool for reviewing state science frameworks.

She has facilitated workshops with formal and informal science education entities such as Modern Red Schoolhouse; Educational Field Studies; National Institute of Medicine; United States Forestry Service; National Park Service, Kidsnet, school districts, and states.

Currently she is a science/mathematics consultant with various groups including the Office of Overseas Schools. Ms Anderson was awarded the Finis Engleman Award, NESA's highest honor, at the 2011 Fall Leadership Conference in Athens.

AERO Math Preconference: March 29-30

Assessment in Mathematics

Assessment is the glue that holds a program together and provides us with short- and long-term evidence of learning. It has been noted that, “What we assess communicates what we value,” and “What is inspected, is respected!”

The AERO Common Core Plus Standards emphasize the growing importance and impact of formative assessment practices and the inclusion of assessment of the Mathematical Practices. The emerging models of computer-delivered summative assessments are changing how we gather evidence of learning and how we use this evidence to adjust instruction. Teachers are expected to plan and implement rigorous and diverse assessments – both formative and summative – and then gather, interpret and use the results of these assessments to inform instruction and student learning.

Focus: This two-day institute will examine how assessment of the AERO Common Core Plus Mathematics Standards is an integrated and dynamic part of the teaching and learning process and how the value of any assessment is only as good as the use of the assessment data.

Participants will:

Examine and use the characteristics of high quality assessment tasks to gather evidence of student learning and to provide an opportunity to engage in the Mathematical Practices.
Examine high quality questioning techniques that promote classroom dialogue and student questioning.
Explore and discuss practical strategies for how to best use assessment data to make more effective instructional decisions.

Target Audience: Math teachers for Grades 3-12. This institute with an action research project can serve as the fifth component in the 5-session “Math Specialists in International Schools” cohorts.