PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Presentations and Participation:
Project Advisor, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board May, 2012
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Adventist Educ., Mathematics Issue Jan, 2012
Facilitator, Texas A&M Math Camp 2010
Purpose: Assessing strengths and weaknesses and teaching
junior high and high school mathematics students
Presenter, 32nd annual meeting of the SERA 2009
The Southwest Educational Research Association in San Antonio, Texas
Paper Title: Behaviorist and Constructivist Context in the College-level
Remedial Mathematics Classroom
Presenter/Participant, PMET workshop, University of San Diego 2005
Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers, supported by the
National Science Foundation and Texas Instruments
Purpose: to present a method of teaching proof and classroom
assessment, to learn how to educate future teachers and to evaluate
current teaching practices used in mathematics
Presenter/Participant, PMET workshop, University of San Diego 2004
Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers, supported by the
National Science Foundation and Texas Instruments
Purpose: to demonstrate teaching methods involving proof,
to learn the application of Texas Instruments classroom systems
Participant, ‘Ensuring Teacher Quality’ project, Arlington, Texas 2004
At the Dana Center, supported by the University Texas Austin
Purpose: Preparing to educate Texas high school teachers to meet
‘highly qualified’ status as put forth in the No Child Left Behind campaign
Participant, ‘Teachers Teaching with Technology’,
Breckenridge, Colorado 2004
Supported by Texas Instruments, Ohio State University and
Colorado State University
Purpose: Learning to use the TI series graphing calculators,
the Navigator teaching system, Voyage 2000, Geometers Sketchpad
and other active geometry programs with the intent of teaching
pre-service teachers
Participant, ‘Rocky Mountain Mathematica’, Frisco, Colorado 2002
Purpose: learning programming and applications of Mathematica
to the classroom
Facilitator, Summer Learning Institute, Riverside California 2000
Purpose: Teaching California high school teachers math methods
Teacher, ‘Partners in Academic Excellence, Bourns Engineering,
and the California Alliance for Minority Participation,
Riverside, California 2000
Purpose: Teaching gifted Pre-medicine and engineering students
during the summer prior to college admission






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