A series of six planning sessions involving three teachers each session were held. The sessions were started Oct. 17, 1978 and were completed Oct. 24, 1978. The purpose was to give the regular classroom teachers an opportunity to dialogue and discuss in more detail the plans they wanted to develop for the year. The written results of the sessions were taken and made the focus for the school’s objectives for the 1978-1979 school year.
In addition to the planning sessions, the Developmental Math Workshop was held after school on October 24, 1978. Mrs. Nancy Feeney, instructor of Mathematics at Webster College and teacher of Math in the Normandy School District provided a wide array of useful hints and suggestions to teachers about what could be done with slower pupils in Math. Near the end of the workshop, there was a feeling that Mrs. Feeney had been right on target with her stimulating remarks. Teachers experienced the often rare exhiliaration of exploring some of their most persistent problems in the teaching of Math Concepts. Ninetynine percent of the Hamilton faculty were present for this first workshop.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1978.
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