On Friday, September 28th, secondary English education undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Education presented at a featured session entitled “Teaching the Best Young Adult Fiction of 2011/2012” at the annual conference of the North Carolina English Teachers’ Association (NCETA) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Under the guidance of Dr. Alan Brown, students presented […]
The International Baccalaureate Schools of North Carolina and Wake Forest University would like to invite you to attend the 7pm lecture on March 7th by The Washington Post education columnist, Jay Mathews. Jay Mathews is the author of multiple books including Supertest: How the International Baccalaureate Can Strengthen Our Schools, Escalante: The Best Teacher in […]
Seven Wake Forest University Secondary Education students presented at the 42nd Annual North Carolina Science Teachers Association Professional Development Institute on November 10-11, 2011 at the Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC. Nick Corak, Carson Dobrin, Joe Hester, Bryan Reagan, Aaron Willey, Andrew Wilson, and Brian Wood presented materials for teaching various science concepts, and created a […]
Mathematics education students and faculty presented at the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics(NCCTM) Annual Meeting in Greensboro on October 27, 2011. “GeoGebra is Golden” was the title of the presentation, which addressed the use of technology in meeting the goals of the Common Core State Standards. Participants included Caroline Ewald, Anna Hester, Samantha […]
Nine Mathematics Education students from Wake Forest University presented at the 2010 North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference on October 28th, 2010. Please check out their presentations in PDF form below. Wall Street Tycoon – Brian Smith Big League Salary – Lauren Redman and Phil Brame Eggcellent! – Heidi Arnold and Cayce Poindexter The Math of […]
Authentic Assessments in Algebra Authentic assessment involves mathematical problems which are set in a real-world context. Students are required to perform mathematical operations on realistic (or real) data and to use these outcomes for reasoning and sense making. Authentic assessments will involve content standards, 21st century skills, and technology. Eight students presented at the 2009 […]
Dr. Leah McCoy and seven of her Mathematics Education students attended the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Greensboro on October 30, 2008, at which the students presented lesson plans an other materials they prepared to help others teach Mathematics. Below are the presentations, in PDF form, to print or view. World Traveling: […]
On October 11, 2007, Leah McCoy and several of her Mathematics Education students present at the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Each of the presentations are geared towareds high school mathematics, and either take place in or are about the outdoors. Please see the links below for the original lesson plans and materials […]
Leah McCoy and eight Mathematics Education students present at the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference in October 2006. Please see the links below for lesson plans and other materisla presented by Dr. McCoy and her students. All files are in PDF format. Navajo Codes in World War II by Caroline Adkisson Geometry, Pi, […]