National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1090

For Immediate Release

Webcast Addresses Professional Development For Enhancing Mathematics 
Instruction in Career and Technical Education

The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education 
(NDCCTE) will present a webcast entitled "Professional Development to 
Enhance Mathematics Instruction in Career and Technical Education" on 
Monday, February 20, 2006, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. EST. This interactive 
event, and previous webcasts, can be viewed on any computer with Internet 
access at <http://www.nccte.org>.

Professional development is critical to improving the mathematics skills of 
career and technical education (CTE) students. The Math in CTE study 
recently completed by the National Research Center for Career and Technical 
Education (NRCCTE) found that CTE and math instructors need to work 
together to identify the math that is embedded in CTE curriculum and to 
develop lessons to teach that math explicitly.

This webcast describes the professional development provided to the 
experimental teachers who participated in the Math in CTE study. This is 
the third NDCCTE webcast on this study. In a webcast on December 13, 2005, 
James Stone presented the overall method and results of the study. One 
month later (on January 13, 2006), a webcast panel presented examples of 
lessons that had been developed for the study.

Just adopting the lessons developed for the study would not be sufficient 
to improve the learning of mathematics. Professional development is 
essential to prepare CTE teachers to deliver these lessons. The Math in CTE 
study summarized its findings by this formula:

(Pedagogy)(Process) = Mathachievement

The pedagogy is a seven-element teaching model. The process is professional 
development within a community of practice made up of both CTE and math 
instructors. Note that these two components multiply each other, but if 
either one is missing, the resulting multiplication by zero will equal a 
zero outcome.

The presenters for the webcast are Linda Harrison, Co-Coordinator for the 
Colorado Math in CTE research project; Vicki Mivshek, business and 
marketing teacher, Thompson Valley High School (Colorado); Donna Pearson, 
NRCCTE, Minnesota; Sherrie Schneider, Colorado Community College System 
(CCCS); and Trevor Timmons, instructional technology teacher and 
coordinator, Thompson Valley High School.

Linda Harrison has been actively involved in education for over 30 years 
and has expertise in special education, marketing education, CTE, 
school-to-career initiatives, and educational research. Harrison has served 
as Assistant Director and School-to-Career Coordinator for the Career 
Development Department in Jefferson County (Colorado) Public Schools.

Harrison is licensed as a professional teacher and a professional 
principal, and has credentials in marketing education, applied academics, 
and special programs. Her education includes a doctorate from Colorado 
State University, a master's degree from the University of Northern 
Colorado, and bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University.

Vicki Mivshek is a business and marketing teacher at Thompson Valley High 
School in Loveland, CO. Her classes include marketing work experience; 
accounting; marketing, sales, and advertising; and introduction to 
business. In addition, she is the school's sponsor and the business 
department chair for DECA (the association for students and teachers of 
marketing, management and entrepreneurship).

Previously, she held positions as the marketing director of a Denver law 
firm and marketing research director for a Florida bank. Mivshek also 
co-owned a store in Breckenridge, CO, for several years. She attended the 
post-bachelor teacher licensure program at Colorado State University, and 
earned a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree 
in marketing from the University of Wyoming.

Donna Pearson serves as Deputy Director of Professional Development for the 
NRCCTE at the University of Minnesota (U of M). As a co-principal 
investigator for the Math in CTE study, she has provided leadership in the 
teacher development aspects of the project, as well as in the qualitative 
aspects of the research design.

During her time at U of M, Pearson has served as Family Education 
Coordinator in the Department of Work, Community, and Family Education, 
where she led the development of an online program for parent educators. 
Prior to this, she was the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences for the 
initial teacher licensure programs in the College of Education and Human 
Development.

Pearson received her doctorate in vocational education from U of M. She 
attended the University of Nebraska for master's coursework, and earned her 
bachelor's degree in home economics education from Kearney (Nebraska) State 
College.

Sherrie Schneider has 28 years of CTE teaching and administrative 
experience at the secondary, community college, university, and state 
department levels. She has extensive experience in curriculum development, 
professional programs supervision, business/industry training, program 
evaluation, leadership training, teacher education, teacher credentialing 
and certification, and school reform initiatives. Schneider currently is 
the Associate Vice President for Curriculum and Instruction /Academic 
Affairs at the CCCS. Previously, Schneider was the Vice President of 
Instruction at Red Rocks Community College (Colorado) and the Director of 
CTE Programs and Teacher Credentialing for the CCCS.

Schneider holds several Colorado education management 
credentials/certificates. She will receive her doctorate in human resource 
development/educational administration from Colorado State University (CSU) 
this summer (2006). Both her master's degree in educational administration 
and bachelor's degree in vocational education are from CSU.

Trevor Timmons has been a teacher at Thompson Valley High School in 
Loveland, CO, since January 2003. During that time, he has taught both 
mathematics and business courses. His current assignment is teaching 
instructional technology, and he also coordinates technology use and 
assists other teachers with technology integration.

Timmons received his master's degree in instructional technology with an 
emphasis on instructional design and development from Utah State 
University. His secondary teacher training included student teaching in 
algebra II, geometry, and computer programming. Timmons received his 
bachelor's degree in mathematics education with a computer science teaching 
minor, also from Utah State University.

Viewers of the webcast may ask questions of the panel by signing up (at no 
charge) for a chatroom account at <http://www.nccte.org/re/050418b.asp>. 
The chatroom allows you to submit questions during the presentation. Please 
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The work reported herein was supported under the National Dissemination 
Center for Career and Technical Education (PR/Award No. VO51A990004) and/or 
under the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education 
(PR/Award No. VO51A990006), as administered by the Office of Vocational and 
Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education. However, the contents do not 
necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Office of Vocational 
and Adult Education or the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not 
assume endorsement by the federal government. The National Dissemination 
Center for Career and Technical Education and the National Research Center 
for Career and Technical Education are funded by the Office of Vocational 
and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education.

For Additional Information Contact:
Barbara Reardon
The Ohio State University
Director of Communications
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1090
Phone: 614-292-2894
Fax: 614-688-3258
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