Week 3: What Is To Be Done?

Week 3: What is to be Done by our Secondary Mathematics Teacher Cadre Committee:
Kamal Saini, Houston ISD

These notes are based on our conversation during the May 7th Secondary Mathematics Teacher Cadre Meeting.
1. How to incorporate the Top 10 power objectives into our curriculum to be taught keeping in mind the future considerations?
2. Incorporate activities from LTF in summer school to check for student’s response/understanding.
3. How to pose big idea questions/questioning strategies to students to create a college bound culture?
4. Suggested LTF as Resources for curriculum design.
5. Generate a list of appropriate resources to be included in curriculum.
6. Monica Kendall discussed about District Plan for common benchmark for all HISD schools from next year.
7. Vertical alignment of objectives from College Algebra MATH 1314 and 1315 in Algebra II (B)
7. Draft HAPG for the 1st Six Weeks to be turned on 5.14.07
8. Who is going to do what for 2nd-6th 6 weeks HAPG.
9. What is due by 6.8.07 and 6.22.07 to be decided in meeting on 5.14.07.

Algebra I/Geometry/ Algebra 2/Pre-AP Committee Members, and their areas of focus are:
Member Area of Focus
1.Yolanda Beronque & Kamal Saini Algebra II
2. Marcy Divinity Algebra I
3. Camille Jones Geometry
4. Patricia McMorris Chairperson: All Subjects

BACKUP for Middle School Mathematics – Patricia McMorris
2nd BACKUP – Marcy Divinity