Teacher Education Presentations by Jeanine Brownell

    2019

  • Brownell, J. O.

    (2019). Six of One; Half-dozen of the Other: Helping 1st and 2nd Graders Figure Out How Many of What? Presentation at Ready Set Teach, CPS Office of Early Childhood Education.

  • Brownell, J. O., Itzkowich, R.

    (2019). Looking at student work with grade-level colleagues: A formative assessment protocol for co-planning. Presentation at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Meeting.

    National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Itzkowich, R., Brownell, J. O.

    (2019). Let’s play and learn together! Games engage ALL children and families in math thinking. Presentation at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Meeting.

    National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

    • 2017

  • Itzkowich, R., Brownell, J. O.

    (2017). Using a Protocol for Looking At Student Work with Primary Teachers. Presentation at the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) Annual Conference.

    National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics

    • 2016

  • McCray, J., Brownell, J. O., Hynes-Berry, M.

    (2016). Building math with big ideas. Presentation at the National Association of the Education of Young Children Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

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    Abstract

    The Big Ideas of early math are not maxims to be memorized and repeated by young children; instead, they are the key understandings that teachers of young children should emphasize as they support preschool learning experiences. When teachers have a deep, connected understanding of these Big Ideas, they are prepared to plan for and respond to children’s activities and learning in ways that clarify thinking and emphasize the kinds of knowledge that are generative of later, elementary level math ideas. Our team has identified three Big Ideas related to number sense: 1) The quantity of a small set can be perceived intuitively without counting; 2) Quantity is an attribute of a set of objects and we use numbers to name specific quantities; and 3) Numbers are used in many ways, some more mathematical than others. The first idea, that the quantity of a small set can be intuitively perceived, without counting, helps teachers see the power of subitizing and visual number sense for helping children understand number. The second idea, that number is a way of describing the amount of a set, goes to the purpose of numbers, a topic that is often over-looked in the early childhood curriculum. The third idea, that numbers are used in many ways, reminds teachers that not all examples of numbers carry an equal amount of explanatory information. These ideas will each be fully explored, with multiple examples.

  • Brownell, J. O.

    Seward, R. (2016, January). District-wide Shifts for P12 Math Instruction in Chicago Public Schools. Presentation at the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE).

    • 2015

  • Brownell, J. O.

     (2015, July). Growing Math in Your School Garden. Presentation at Chicago Public Schools’ Ready, Set, Teach! Summer Institute, Chicago, IL.

    • 2014

  • Brownell, J. O.

    , Castro, V., Morgan, K. (2014, July). Making the most of CPS K-2 math block. Presentation at Chicago Public Schools’ Ready, Set, Teach! Summer Institute, Chicago, IL.

    • 2013

  • Brownell, J. O.

     (2013, July). The Early Math Collaborative at Erikson: Supporting teachers to improve practice. Paper presented at the CME Group Foundation Early Math Education Conference, Chicago, IL.

    CME Group Foundation Early Math Education Conference

    • 2012

  • Brownell, J. O., Ginet, L., Johnson, D.

     (2012, November). Making sense of number sense: Numerical literacy in preschool. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Atlanta, GA.

    National Association for the Education of Young Children

    • 2009

  • Hynes-Berry, M., Brownell, J. O.

     (2009). Measurement with young children: What kind of “big” is it? Presentation at the annual meeting of the Chicago Metro Association for the Education of Young Children, Chicago, IL.

    Chicago Metro Association for the Education of Young Children