Tri-State Mathematics Educator Community

TRIMEC is a community of math educators in the Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. We hope to foster professional development, communication, and collaboration between math educators in the region. The spirit of the TRIMEC project includes mathematics educators of all sorts:

• Educators who work at the college, university, community college, high school, and middle school levels
• Professionals in subject-area mathematics, pre-service teacher education, and in mathematics-adjacent fields.

TRIMEC is a newly founded group. In Fall 2019, we will focus on the recently published MAA Instructional Practices Guide, which is aimed at post-secondary education but is applicable to all levels. We hope to support additional activities in Spring 2020 and later as the community grows. Suggestions and comments are very welcome, as well as volunteers.

In Fall 2019, we will be reading the MAA Instructional Practices Guide as a group. Each session will discuss a portion of the guide. All are welcome to join each discussion.

A videoconference link will be sent by email a few days before each meeting. To receive the email, please contact one of the organizers to be added to the distribution list.

• Tuesday, September 10 at 4pm: Organizational Meeting
  • Introductions and welcome
  • Discussion of common vision, goals, and ground rules
  • Overview of the IP guide
• Tuesday, September 24 at 4pm: Classroom Practices (1)
  • CP1 Fostering student engagement
• Tuesday, October 8 at 4pm: Classroom Practices (1)
  • CP1 Fostering student engagement (continued)
• Tuesday, October 22 at 4pm: Classroom Practices (2)
  • CP2 Selecting appropriate mathematical tasks
• Tuesday November 5 at 4pm: Classroom Practices (2)
  • CP2 Selecting appropriate mathematical tasks (continued)
  • Guest panelist: Michael Schroeder (Marshall) will share experiences about flipped classroom teaching.
• Tuesday November 19: no meeting
• Tuesday, December 3 at 4pm: Assessment Practices (1)
  • AP1 basics about assessment
  • AP2 formative assessment creates an assessment cycle
  • AP3 summative assessment
  • AP4 assessments that promote student communication
• Tuesday, December 17 at 4pm: Assessment Practices (2)
  • AP5 conceptual understanding: what do my students really know?
  • AP6 assessment in large enrollment classes
  • AP7 assessment in nontraditional classrooms

Spring 2020 Schedule

• Tuesday, January 21 at 4pm: Cross-cutting Themes
  • DP1 introduction to design practices
  • DP2 student learning outcomes and instructional design
  • DP3 challenges and opportunities
  • DP4 theories of instructional design
• Tuesday, February 4 at 4pm: Technology (Cross-cutting Themes)
  • XT1 introduction
  • XT2 uses of technology
  • XT3 the Effectiveness of technology
  • XT4 Technology incorporated into instructional practice
  • XT5 practical implications
• Tuesday, February 18 at 4pm: Equity (Cross-cutting Themes)
  • XT1 Introduction
  • XT2 Definitions
  • XT3 Higher-order equity-oriented principles
  • XT4 Attending to equity