Education Group

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Projects
Burkina Summer Enrichment Program
Members
Bethany Blackwood Elena Casey Kimberly Frey Jenny Kelly Becca Kharajian Pamela Kirkpatrick{Group Leader} Katie Ogden Jenna Sweitzer Nathan Van Wyck
Advisors
Angela Hare

Summary

The Education Group promotes literacy and the development of abstract thinking skills among children and families in communities where lack of education is an issue of justice.

Mission

Students and faculty in the Education Group seek to strengthen both their knowledge as educators and their understanding of biblical values and spiritual maturity through work on insightful education projects, designed to meet the specific learning needs of marginalized cultures, with input and guidance from partnering organizations.

Vision

Promoting justice and opportunity as biblical values, through academic engagement and community partnership in the disciplines of mathematics, education, and information science.

News

• The Education Group meets Monday evenings from 6:45pm - 8:00pm in Frey 352.
• Five students from our Group traveled to the villages of Mahadaga and Nindangou in January 2009. Our Group projects included delivering materials for blind students and teachers at the Center for the Advancement of the Handicapped in Mahadaga, conducting a professional development workshop for teachers at CAH, and leading an arithmetic and finance workshop for Burkinabe pastors at the Nindangou Bible School. Five other students on the team included one student of engineering, one biology student, two business majors, and one nutrition major.

Projects

Current projects

Burkina Summer Enrichment Program

Past projects

1. Strengthening Mathematical Literacy
   • This two year project began in 2007-08 and ended in May 2009. Read our January 2008 Math Education Report and the follow-up January 2009 Site team Mathematics Education Report. We also were able to observe the library at the Center for the Advancement of the Handicapped (CAH) in Mahadaga: January 2008 Library Assessment Report and . Click here to read the J2009 Site team Finance Workshop Report.
   • Other links related to the Strengthening Math Literacy project:
     1. Mathematics Workshops for Burkinabe Teachers Coordinator Jeff Slye
     2. Educational Assessment Survey Coordinator Katie Patton
     3. Literacy and School Libraries Coordinators Katie Ogden and Aimee Kocher
2. Math Education for Missionary Families
   • Kevin Laflamme ('09) spent six weeks in the Burkinabe city of Fada n'Gourma, where he worked daily as a math tutor for an Australian missionary family who homeschool their four children, ages 5 through 12. Kevin's teaching notes.
3. Burkina Math Literacy Project
   • Research
   • Design
   • Testing
4. Christian vocation in the Messiah mathematics major
5. Developing a Dynamic Computer Science Curriculum through Student Interaction

Future projects

Resources

• ED:Strengthening Mathematical Literacy/08-09 Project planning article
• Color By Number
• Burkinabé Alphabet Book
• Math-Integrated Physical Education
• Cuisenaire Rod Math Tool
• ED:Burkina Summer Enrichment Program/09-10 Project planning article
• BSEP Burkina Faso Su09 site team proposal
• ED:Burkina Summer Enrichment Program/2010-2011 Project Planning Article

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