TO: Mathematics Education Committee FROM: Bob Kansky DATE: 11 January 1996 RE: Our Meeting of 17 January Two reminders and an agenda: 1) We have our first meeting of 1996 (bring your own hats and noisemakers) in McGuffey Hall's Chistofferson Room (305 B) at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, 17 January. 2) A small packet of background material was mailed to your members' offices on 11 January. Please read that before the meeting and bring it with you. The agenda of things already before us for Spring 1996 follows. We'll tackle it in the order given, but we certainly won't get through it on Wednesday! =============================================================== Mathematics Education Committee Agenda for 17 January 1996* 1) Proposed Teacher Certification Program (birth through age 8) 2) Statistics requirements: Elementary Specialist, Secondary o New course(s)? 3) Hybrid (Plan A/B) M.A.T Degrees 4) Syllabus Revision o MTH 604: Applications and Discrete Mathematics for Secondary Teachers 5) Mathematics education courses o GPA policy relative to methods and student teaching o Evolution of current courses (EDT 318, 335, 336) o Enrollment management implications o Possible designation as laboratory courses __________________________ *and thereafter ....