Math Summer School for Elementary Math Teachers

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The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Mathematics at UBC and SFU will be offering a 4-week Math Summer School for elementary school teachers this summer. The summer school will run from Monday June 29th to Friday July 24th, 2015.

Teachers are expected to attend from 8:30 to 12:00 every weekday and to work on their own at home for another half an hour each day. They will be paid a $1,400 stipend plus $200 in resources upon completion of the program.

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Summer School Structure

Participating teachers will have the opportunity to:

Improve their mathematical knowledge and skills
Broaden their understanding of mathematics and its applications
Develop strategies for teaching
Develop exemplary lessons that can be used by other teachers
Enhance their professional networks

Program Requirements

The summer school is open to 15 teachers, meeting the following requirements:

We want to have 3 teachers per school attending the summer school. The reason for this is so that as a group, they are later able to develop an enthusiastic culture around math at their school, and to support each other.
Each participant is able to attend every day, to actively participate in all activities and to work in teams to develop resources.

Program Structure

We will be focusing on 5 schools each year, and we will be providing additional support to those schools during the year.

Schools and teachers will be selected based on the level of interest and enthusiasm as well as the teachers' application. Their current mathematical skills are not an essential part of our selection criteria. The program location will be determined by its convenience to participating teachers.

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