Vita For John G LaMaster

AWARDS:

Friends of the University Teacher of the Year, 2004.

Promoted to Senior Instructor, 2004.

Recognized in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Spring 1998.

Awarded tenure, 1997.

School of Arts and Sciences Award for the Enhancement of Learning. "An Innovative Flexible Pacing/Mastery Program in Developmental Mathematics," (with D. Hall, M. Reba, J. Vetter, and D. Zook), Spring 1997.

Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), Spring 1994.

Recognized for outstanding cooperation with students with disabilities by the Association of dis-Abled Students Excelling in Leadership, Spring 1993, Spring 1996.

Nominated for the Indiana-Purdue Student Government Association Award for Service to Students, Spring 1993.

GRANTS RECEIVED:

“Using the TI-Navigator to Improve Student Learning,” Leading Educational Application and Design (LEAD) Grant, November 2004 ($9940).

“Implementing Effective Collaborative Learning in College Algebra and Trigonometry”, Center for Enhancement and Learning and Teaching (CELT) Grant, 2002, ($3550).

"Applications + Assessment: Establishing Mathematical Connections in Pre-algebra, First and Second Year Algebra Classrooms," (with James R. Hersberger), Indiana Commission for Higher Education Eisenhower Mathematics and Sciences Program, January 12, 1996, ($62,280) and renewed January 2, 1997 ($53,147).

"Proposal for Funding to Host a One Week Intensive Workshop on Using Graphing Calculators in Pre-Algebra, First, and Second Year Algebra," General Telephone Foundation, 1997. ($6000).

The Ohio State University grants for summer graphing calculator workshops:

· With Dianne Clark, College Short Course Mini-Grant for "Graphing Calculators in Algebra/Trigonometry" Five Day Workshop, Summer 2000, ($5000).

· College Short Course Mini-Grant for "Graphing Calculators in Algebra/Trigonometry" One and a Half Day Workshop, Spring 2000, ($750).

· With June Townsend, College Short Course Mini-Grant for "Graphing Calculators in Algebra/Trigonometry" Five Day Workshop, Summer 1998, ($4000).

"Materials for Graphing Calculator-Enhanced Elementary & Intermediate Algebra and College Algebra & Trigonometry," IPFW Summer Instructional Development Grant, 1994, ($4000).

PUBLICATIONS (Contributed):

Prepared 92 step-by-step “Calculator Perspective” examples, including keystroke images and screen captures, based directly upon the 46 “Calculator Perspective” examples in the text Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: The Language and Symbolism of Mathematics by James W. Hall and Brian A. Mercer, including:

· one set of 46 “Calculator Perspectives” revised to illustrate the demonstrated operations for the TI-86 graphing calculator and

· an additional set of 46 “Calculator Perspectives” revised to illustrate the demonstrated operations for the CASIO 9850 GB Plus graphing calculator.

All work was prepared in Microsoft Word as well as Web-ready PDF format. This work was published by McGraw-Hill in 2002.

Contributed activities to the Online Teacher Resource EXPLORATIONS™ Algebra 1 Classroom Materials, Texas Instruments, 2001.

Assisted with Topics in Algebra I, TI-73 and TI-83 Plus Software Application, M. Mankus, Ed., Texas Instruments, 2001.

Solutions Manual to College Algebra and Trigonometry: A Graphing Approach by Aufmann, Nation, and LaMaster, Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS:

Paper published in ERIC Database

A Beginner’s Look at Sequence Mode, 14th Annual International T³ (Teachers Teaching with Technology) Conference Calgary, Canada, March 15-17, 2002

B³: Balls, Brains and Bodies or Is a Bigger Body Better, 13th Annual International T³ (Teachers Teaching with Technology) Conference, Columbus, OH, March 16-18, 2001).

Presentations/Workshops at professional meetings and conferences

Geometry APPS on the TI-73 Explorer at the 17th Annual International Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Conference, Washington, DC, March 16-18, 2005.

Self-scoring, web-delivered assignments with instructor authored open-ended questions in mainstream precalculus classes, International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education "Online Classes Go Mainstream," November 10-13, 2003.

Standards-Based Activities Using Apps on the TI-73 and TI-83 Plus, Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM) Summer Conference, July 26, 2002.

What's More Fun than Tetris? The Topics in Algebra 1 APP!, at the 15th Annual International Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Conference, Nashville, TN, March 7-9, 2003.

With Dale Nowlin, Hands-On Data Collection and Modeling Give Meaning to Exponential Functions, 80th Annual Meeting of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 23, 2002.

A Beginner’s Look at Sequence Mode 14th Annual International Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Conference Calgary, Canada, March 15-17, 2002.

A one and a half hour workshop, B³: Balls, Brains and Bodies or Is a Bigger Body Better, 13th Annual International Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Conference, Columbus, OH, March 16-18, 2001.

Host and presenter for a three hour workshop: Using TI Graph-Link and TI InterActive!: Applications in Algebra, Calculus and Statistics, Fall Meeting of the Indiana Regional Mathematics Consortium, IPFW, November 3, 2000.

With Dale Nowlin, How to Liven Up Your Math Class with a Dead Body, 78^th Annual Meeting of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Chicago, IL, April 13-15, 2000.

Calculator Glitches: When a Student Says, "My TI-83 Doesn't Look Like Yours", Twelfth Annual International Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Conference, Dallas, TX, March 17-19, 2000.

With Chip Vandell, What is a Graphing Calculator? What is the New Reform Curriculum?, Scholarship of Teaching Conference, IPFW, March 26, 1999.

A one and a half hour presentation, Graphing Calculator Enhanced Trigonometry, Eleventh Annual Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Conference, Chicago, IL, January 22-24, 1999.

A power point web-based presentation, Technology-Active Testing in Algebra and Trigonometry at the Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Computer Lab 1998 Open House Online Conference on Using Technology in the Classroom, October 19, 1998. (See the Web Site http://www.ipfw.edu/as/98openhouse/index.htm)

A two hour workshop Experiments with the TI-92 and CBR presented at the Third Annual International Derive and TI-92 Conference, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 14-17, 1998.

A Portable Laboratory for the Math Classroom: A Graphing Calculator and CBL, presented at the Conference on The Use of Computers and Related Technologies for Instruction, Ivy Tech State College, Fort Wayne, IN, May 28, 1998.

A two hour workshop Establishing Connections in Pre-Calculus Using the TI-83 presented at the Tenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), Chicago, IL, November 7, 1997.

Demand Applications: Using the Demand Law and Technology to Breathe Life into the Study of Conics and Linear, Quadratic, Rational, and Exponential Functions, given at the Ninth Annual Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 7-10, 1997.

Testing with Graphing Calculators, a contributed paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 4-7, 1995.

With Reginald Luke, Advanced Precalculus on the TI-82, a 2 hour workshop, Sixth Annual Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) National Conference, Fort Worth, TX, Feb. 11-13, 1994.

In-Class Group Activities and TI-81 Demonstrations to Involve Students in Algebra and Trigonometry, (hour presentation) and Efforts to Reduce Math Anxiety at IPFW, (poster session), Nineteenth Annual National Conference of American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), Boston, MA, Nov. 20, 1993.

Contracted work for the College Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) Program

Math for Preservice Teacher Educators (PTE) Short Course on TI-73, TI-83 Plus, CBL2, CBR, and Voyager 200, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, October 15-16, 2004 (a two day workshop) with Mark Klespis.

Math for Preservice Teacher Educators (PTE) Short Course on TI-73, TI-83 Plus, CBL2, CBR, and TI-InterActive!, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, September 20-21, 2002 (a two day workshop)

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of College Algebra Using the TI-83 Plus, McHenry County Community College, Crystal Lake, IL, June 11-13 2001 (a three day workshop)

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of College Algebra Using the TI-83 Plus, Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield, IL February 20, 2001 (a one day workshop)

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of College Algebra Using the TI-83 Plus, CBL/CBR and TI InterActive!, IPFW, August 7-11, 2000 (a five day 30 hour workshop)

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of College Algebra Using the TI-83 Plus, CBL/CBR, and TI-92 Plus, Kent State University, Trumbull, Warren OH, June 27-29, 2000 (a three day 18 hour workshop)

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of College Algebra Using the TI-83 Plus, IPFW, January 4-5, 2000 (a one and a half day workshop)

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of College Algebra Using the TI-83 graphing calculator workshop at Belleville Area College, Belleville, Illinois, April 3-4, 1998.

Week long Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of College Algebra Using the TI-83 at IPFW. Calculator-Based Laboratory and Calculator-Based Ranger was included. The course was a week long (30 hours), May 11-15, 1998.

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Precalculus and Calculus Using the TI-83 graphing calculator workshop at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, August 4-8, 1997.

Additional contracted work:

Organized and led a one day workshop on implementing MA153-154-151 with groups, August 16, 2003.

A three hour workshop for FWCS high school science teachers Using the CBL-2 and the TI-83 Plus to Enhance the Teaching of High School Science, Northrop High School, June 3, 2003.

A one hour workshop for FWCS middle school teachers Using the Internet to Help You Meet Indiana Academic Standards, Kekionga Middle School, March 3, 2003.

A one hour workshop at the Core Plus Math Project User’s Conference

Using graphing calculators in the CPMP curriculum, Northrop High School, March 1, 2003.

A half-day in-service, Activities with the TI-73 for Middle School Math and Science, Pike Training Center, Indianapolis, IN January 11, 2003.

Four one hour workshop for FWCS administrators: Using the Department of Education Web Site to Empower You as a School Administrator, FWCS Lester Grile Administration Building,

January 7-9, 2003.

One Day TI-73 Workshop, School City of East Chicago 5th and 6th Grade Teachers, December 19, 2002

Workshop on using EXAMGEN software, FWCS High School Teachers, Northrop High School, September 10, 2002.

Four in-services for FWCS teachers in IMI Everyday Math Pilot Project on using the Internet to submit Learning Logs, Fort Wayne, September 4, 5, 11, 12, 2002.

Four 3 hour in-services for elementary school teachers using the Internet to implement Best Practices and Standards-Based Learning, Northrop High School, July 8-11, 2002.

Four 3 hour in-services for middle school math teachers using the Internet to implement Best Practices and Standards-Based Learning, Snider High School, Northrop High School, June 10-13, 2002

Two 3 hour in-services, for high school math teachers using Core-Plus and the Internet to implement Best Practices and Standards-Based Learning, Snider High School, June 3 - 4, 2002.

Indiana Mathematics Initiative Workshop for Grades 6, 7, and 8 on Using Technology to Meet the New Indiana Standards, Indianapolis, IN (a one hour workshop for each grade level), May 2, 2002 and December 6, 2001.

An afternoon Graphing Calculator Workshop, Educational Opportunity Center, Fort Wayne, IN, November 28, 2001

One Day Graphing Calculator Workshop for High School Teachers, Central High School, Burlington, IL, November 9, 2001.

Two Days of a 5 day Indiana Mathematics Initiative workshop to assist middle school and high school teachers in writing lessons to meet Indiana academic standards, Meeting the New Indiana Mathematics Standards: Making the Link, Fort Wayne, IN, July 9-10, 2001

Two Days of a 5 day Indiana Mathematics Initiative workshop to assist middle school teachers in writing lessons to meet Indiana academic standards, Meeting the New Indiana Mathematics Standards: Making the Link including a one day workshop on Problem Solving and the NCTM Process Standards., Indianapolis, IN, June 18-19, 2001.

IMI Middle School Graphing Calculator Workshop: Implementing the Connected Math Project with the TI-73, Block Jr. High School, East Chicago, IN (each a 6 hour workshop), February 13, 2001 and December 5, 2000.

TI-83 Workshop for EOC Staff, Educational Opportunity Center, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 25, 2000 (a 1 hour workshop).

With Dale Nowlin,, IMI Middle and High School Graphing Calculator Workshop: Implementing the Connected Math Project and the Glencoe Materials with the TI-73 and TI-83 Plus, Pike Training Center, Indianapolis, IN, July 6-7, 2000 (a two-day 12 hour workshop).

With Dale Nowlin, IMI Middle and High School Graphing Calculator Workshop: Implementing the Connected Math and the Glencoe Materials with the TI-73 and TI-83 Plus, Area Career Center, Hammond, IN, June 22-23, 2000 (a two day 12 hour workshop).

With Dale Nowlin, IMI Middle and High School Graphing Calculator Workshop: Implementing the Connected Math and Core Plus Mathematics Projects with the TI-73 and TI-83 Plus, Terre Haute, IN, June 19-21, 2000 (a three day 18 hour workshop).

IMI Middle School Graphing Calculator Workshop for Math and Science Teachers using the TI-83 Plus, CBL, and CBR., Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, June 15-16, 2000 (a two day 12 hour workshop).

In Fall 1999 and Spring 2000, I was given release time (6 hrs F.T.E) to develop/provide the following in-services:

· Core Plus Math Project Course 3 In-services, Grile Administration Building, Fort Wayne, IN: (each a 1.5 hour workshop)

o Convergence and Divergence of Sequences, April 20, 2000

o Discrete Mathematics, Mar. 14, 2000.

o Graphical Iteration, Feb 15, 2000.

· Core Plus Math Project Course 2 In-services, Grile Administration Building, Fort Wayne, IN: (each a 1.5 hour workshop) Using linkage strips to investigate flexible quadrilaterals

o North Side High School, March 23, 2000.

o With Chip Vandell, South Side High School, March 2, 2000

o Elmhurst, March 1, 2000.

· Core Plus Math Project Course 1 In-services (each a 1.5 hour workshop).

o Implementation Concerns, March 21, 2000.

o Question and Answer Session about Implementation, March 8, 2000.

· Core Plus Math Project Course 3 In-services, Grile Administration Building, Fort Wayne, IN: (each a 1.5 hour workshop)

o Iterative Functions, Dec. 2, 1999.

o With Chip Vandell, Shapes and Geometric Reasoning, Nov. 16, 1999.

o With Chip Vandell, Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals, Oct. 14, 1999.

· Core Plus Math Project Course 2 In-service: Geometric Form and Its Function - Flexible Quadrilaterals, Linkages, and Similarity Using Link Strips (each a 1.5 hour workshop).

o Elmhurst, Dec. 7, 1999.

o With Chip Vandell, South Side, Wayne, and Anthis Career Center, Nov. 18,1999

o Snider and North Side, Oct. 28, 1999.

· Core Plus Math Project Course 1 In-service: Euler Circuits and Vertex Colorings (a 3 hour workshop), Lakeside Middle School, Fort Wayne, IN, Nov. 13, 1999.

Prairie Heights Community Schools, Lagrange, IN, Nov 11, 1999:

· Using the TI-73 to Solve Problems in the Middle School Part II (a 3 hour workshop).

· TI-83 Enhanced Algebra and Trigonometry Part II (a 3 hour workshop).

Prairie Heights Community Schools, Lagrange, IN, May 5, 1999:

o Using the TI-73 to Solve Problems in the Middle School Part I (a 3 hour workshop).

o TI-83 Enhanced Algebra and Trigonometry Part II (a 3 hour workshop).

Family Fun on the Lincoln Tower, FWCS Family Fun Night, (each a 2 hour workshop leading FWCS students and their parents through a lesson in a standards-based reform curriculum using the graphing calculator)

o Lane Middle School, Fort Wayne, IN, March 23, 1999.

o Shawnee Middle School, Fort Wayne, IN, March 17, 1999.

o With Chip Vandell, Lakeside Middle School, Fort Wayne, IN, March 16, 1999.

A 2 hour workshop, Core Plus Technology Inventory, Northside High School, Fort Wayne, IN, Mar. 13, 1999.

Lakeside Middle School, Fort Wayne, IN, Feb. 3, 1999.

1. Enhancing the Middle School STEM Materials with the TI-83: Grade 7 (a 1 hr workshop).

2. Enhancing the Middle School STEM Materials with the TI-83: Grade 8 (a 1 hr workshop).

Organizer and lead instructor for seven 30 hour week-long workshops on the TI-83/TI-73 and CBL/CBR for the Indiana Mathematics Initiative in Summer 1998 and Summer 1999. These workshops were designed to train teachers to use hand held technology with the latest middle school and high school reform curricula adopted by districts throughout Indiana: Connected Math Project (CMP), Integrated Math Project (IMP), Six Through Eight Math Project (STEM), Core Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP). Each course was tailored to use the curricula adopted by the participants of that area.

· With Dale Nowlin, Bill Habegger, and Jim Hersberger, Fort Wayne Community Schools, IPFW, August 9-13, 1999

· With Dale Nowlin, Pike and Anderson, Pike High School, Indianapolis, IN, July 12-16, 1999

· With Dale Nowlin, Vigo County Community Schools, Terre Haute, IN, June 14-18, 1999

· With Marjorie Keever, Fort Wayne Community Schools, IPFW, August 10-14, 1998

· With Dale Nowlin, Pike and Anderson, Pike High School, Indianapolis, IN, July 20-24, 1998

· With Dale Nowlin, The Region, Purdue Calumet, Hammond, IN, June 22-26, 1998

· With Dale Nowlin, Vigo County Community Schools, Terre Haute, IN, June 8-12, 1998

IMI Middle School Graphing Calculator Workshop: Implementing the Connected Math Project with the TI-73, Area Career Center, Hammond, IN, June 25, 1999 (a 6 hour workshop).

A half-day workshop at FWCS Super Saturday, Calculator Glitches: What to do when a student says ‘My screen doesn’t look like yours’, North Side High School, October 24, 1998.

Sept 22: Blackhawk Middle School

Sept 23: Jefferson Middle School

Sept 28: Northwood Middle School

Sept 30: Memorial Park Middle School

Nine 1 hour in-services on-site to schools in the FWCS system on the use of TI Graph link technology and the Core Plus Mathematics Curriculum, September 1998 in these schools

Sept 14: Shawnee Middle School

Sept 15: North Side High School

Sept 16: Lakeside Middle School

Sept 17: Northrop High School

Sept 21: Lane Middle School

All day workshop on the TI-83 and CBL/CBR to teachers at Prairie Heights Community Schools, August 28, 1998.

A half-day graphing calculator workshop at Bishop Luers High School, August 21, 1998.

A five hour workshop on the TI-92 to teachers at Southern Wells High School, April 27, 1998.

Other Presentations

With Jeanne Barone, formerly from IPFW, Communication, I was invited to give a presentation on How the FACET Choir Experience Changed My Teaching at the Faculty Convocation, Indiana University Kokomo, August 27, 1999. We participated in a FACET choir experience which was then made into a professional video about teaching. We were invited by Stuart Green, Office of Academic Affairs, to share our experience with the IUK faculty after they watched the video What’s a teacher for? Master teachers reflect on a powerful learning experience. (See more at http://www.iupui.edu/~facet/choir.htm)

A two hour workshop, CBL/CBR Activities Guaranteed to Move Your Students, to East Allen County School middle and high school teachers, at New Haven high School, Fort Wayne, IN, October 16, 1997.

A one and a half hour presentation, Classroom Techniques for the Math Anxious:

· presented to teachers at the Fourth Annual FACET Associate Faculty Conference, IUPUI Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 23, 1999.

· presented to teachers at the Indiana Regional Mathematics Consortium (IRMC) Spring Meeting, Vincennes, IN, April 4, 1997.

· presented to administrators in the Inter-College Adult Network (ICAN), January 22, 1997.

· presented to teachers at the First Annual FACET Associate Faculty Conference, IUPUI Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, Sept. 24, 1996.

How to Incorporate Collaborative Learning, IPFW Teaching Effectiveness Interest Group, Feb. 17, 1993.

Presented campus math anxiety workshops biannually, 1991- Present.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), 1996-Present.

Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM). 1999-Present.

Indiana Regional Mathematics Consortium (IRMC), 1997-2001.

Board of Directors and Publications Chair (Webmaster at http://users.ipfw.edu/lamaster/irmc.htm), 1999-2001.

John G. LaMaster