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Mathemagica – online professional development that puts the magic in mathematics
Melanie Zibit
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 840–842
How can we help teachers, who grew up learning mathematics through memorization and rules, teach by knowing mathematical ideas and procedures so well that they can explain them skillfully in more than one way and at a level students can understand....
Topics: Teachers, Mathematics, Professional Development, Students
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Dilemmas we faced in online professional development
Melanie Zibit
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2292–2297
Online professional development fosters teacher collaboration and professional growth. But those involved in implementing programs are aware of the subtle complexities and the difficulty of balancing all its dimensions. From my experience building...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development
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simSchool - a Virtual Practicum
Melanie Zibit Melanie; Bill Halverson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2332–2333
simSchool is an exciting new way to prepare teachers to improve student learning. simSchool is a computer simulation where teachers virtually practice their teaching and classroom management skills within a fun and safe educational simulation - game ...
Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Students
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Inside SimSchool – A simulated environment to understand how students learn
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2897–2901
When you watch a chef cook, you can see the process, but when you watch a teacher, the decision making process is internal, making it difficult for an aspiring or novice teacher to connect what the expert teacher does and how students respond....
Topics: Teachers, Behavior, Classrooms, Students
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Online Professional Development – lessons learned
Melanie Zibit Goldman
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 835–837
Over the three years of the MSTelementoring project we experienced success as well as difficulties fostering online learning with inservice teachers. "MSTelementoring", funded by the National Science Foundation, is an online professional development ...
Topics: Professional Development, Science, Change, Teachers
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Teachers sharing and learning online - an innovative professional development model
Melanie Zibit Goldman
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2214–2217
"MSTelementoring" is an innovative, online professional development project for K-12 teachers in central New York State. The focus of the project is on changing teacher practice to more inquiry methods in math and science and technology. Teachers...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development
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Telementoring for Literacy to Cross the Digital Divide
Audrey Friedman; Meca Coote; Melanie Zibit
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 3937–3938
This presentation describes the hurdles of a telementoring project between Boston College and urban Brighton High School. As part of BC?s PT3 program literacy education students telementor low-performing 9th graders in writing.. Urban schools...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Digital Divide, Schools, Students
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simSchool - Today's Preservice Students Prepare for Tomorrow's Classrooms
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson; Bill Halverson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 3130–3136
Forces are buffeting today's schools and institutions, impacting teachers' abilities in the classroom. Too many new teachers enter the classroom unprepared to make decisions and manage a classroom of 24-31 students, in part due to teacher...
Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Students, Virtual Environments