A Success for All Teachers!
From The Compass, Vol. 2, No. 2, January, 1998.
Getting 4,000 teachers together is no easy task, but the organizing committee pulled it off without too many hitches. An even bigger challenge is for everyone who went to the SMARTT Conference to follow up on the great sessions and ideas that the meeting generated. Incorporating your favorite new found ideas and techniques into your teaching becomes the task before us all.
Many of the presenters gave us ideas in science and math. One standout presentation that really provided excellent integration of the two was JPL Scientist Todd Barber in his talk Using High School Math and Science to get to Jupiter. He showed how and why math is important in everything that is done in a space mission. Just about every high school math and science teacher could have found something useful from his talk. If you missed his talk, or still have questions for him, he left contact information:
e-mail:todd.j.barber@jpl.nasa.gov or call him at 1-800-367-5754, then 575, then 30550. I am sure he would be interested to hear from you.
In talking with teachers during and after the two day event, lots of very positive comments were given about particular sessions attended by the teachers and the SMARTT conference as a whole.