Begins Saturday, September 29^th at 9am Hunter College– Room 615 West
Faith Muirhead and Shanti Kantha

This workshop series will be run as a course meeting twice a month for the entire year. All Saturday meetings will be held at Hunter College and once a month a meeting will be held at individual High school sites at 4pm. Teachers who host tutors in their classrooms will be trained along side their tutors on how to implement effective co-teaching strategies in their classrooms. The topics for the co-teaching will range form effective teaching strategies to content-specific strategies for particular classes. Tutors will receive a combination of credit and an hourly rate for their participation. Each training session will be followed up with in-class visits from the facilitators to ensure appropriate implementation. Teachers will instruct tutors, observe tutors, provide feedback for tutors and reflect on their work with tutors. In turn they will have consistent HS and/or College UG tutors in their classrooms. Attendance at the training sessions is a requirement for hosting a tutor.

The National Science Foundation-funded project, The Mathematics and Science Partnership in New York City (MSPinNYC), has created the “Network for Responsive Research in Mathematics and Science Education.” The Network will involve interested CUNY faculty in mathematics, the sciences, mathematics and science education, and pertinent social sciences. We invite you to participate in this exciting new venture and to attend the Inaugural Research Forum. It will be held at Hunter College (Lang Recital Hall) on Friday, September 28, 2007 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, with a reception to follow. This event is invitation only.

The day’s events include greetings from Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Selma Botman and Hunter President, Jennifer Raab. Dr. Cora Marrett, Assistant Director for the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Education and Human Resources will provide the keynote address. The program will also include: (1) brief research presentations by CUNY faculty, (2) an overview of materials available for mathematics and science education research, (3) a discussion of the kinds of support that the MSPinNYC will make available to researchers, and (4) application procedures for securing support.