Recorded Session
Poster Session
NCSSSMST
Price, Power, and Privilege
What Can We Learn from STEM Schools of Excellence?
E. Jean Gubbins, Micah Bruce-Davis, Cindy M. Massicotte, Merzili Villanueva, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Lisa DaVia Rubenstein, Ball State University, Muncie, IN National reports note students’ limited career aspirations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, resulting in a proliferation of STEM-focused secondary schools around the country. Additionally, several reports emphasize the stilted performance of our nation’s students on competitive assessments. What can we learn from STEM schools’ curricular and instructional strategies that promote challenging learning opportunities for gifted and talented students? How do these schools identify and nurture the gifts and talents of all students, including those from culturally diverse communities? Learn how research experiences, mentorships, and problem-based learning support and enhance students’ abilities in STEM fields and promote STEM careers.
Diana Reeves, Rosemary Colt, Noelle Walters, Gordon School, East Providence, RI How long do you need to work to afford dinner at a restaurant? Does it matter? Looking through a multicultural lens and working from primary resources, our mixed-ability students collected, calculated, displayed, analyzed, and interpreted data in a series of activities to answer these questions. They used alternative algorithms, calculators, graphing applications, role play, and guided discussion to explore concepts of need, cost, and wage, and examined how differences in economic wealth impact families’ activities and quality of life. Participants receive a complete planning outline to aid students understanding of power and privilege. Audience: Classroom Teachers K-5, Coordinators Room: 701
Friday
STEM
NAGC Base Camp
Audience: Administrators, Classroom Teachers 9-12 Room: 705
9:20 AM – 10:40 AM
General Sessions (Your choice of two dynamic general sessions) Gardner, Renzulli, and Sternberg: In Their Own Voices in Our Time
Moderator: Carolyn Callahan, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Joseph S. Renzulli, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Robert Sternberg, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; Howard Gardner, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (via simulcast) Four Seasons Ballroom 3-4
Helping Different Kinds of Minds to Learn Temple Grandin, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO Four Seasons Ballroom 1-2
59th Annual Convention
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November 15-18, 2012 | Denver, Colorado
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