Dr. Lesser's Spring 2010 SCHEDULE (subject to modification): 

 

STAT 1380-00 (22746) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics  (final:        )

LART 210

TTh 9-10:20am

MATH 5396 (21828) Graduate Research (section for MAT Cohort VI) 

Bell Hall 130A

TTh 6:30-7:50pm (may go to modified or hybrid schedule, based on enrollment)

MATH 5399-00_ (TD; CRN) Thesis

Varies

Varies

PI of pending NSF CCLI grant that could start fall 2009; supporting faculty in US Department of Education grants Project LEAP-UP and Project ACE, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant SABE MAS; miscellaneous roles in CETaL, CenMaSTER, UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant, etc.;

Varies

Varies

I’m an Editor or Associate Editor of 2 international/national journals (Journal of Mathematics and Culture and Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics); active member(“activist”) of (and UTEP departmental liaison to) Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education and co-facilitator of one of its research clusters

Varies

Varies

 

 

Dr. Lesser's Fall 2009 SCHEDULE (subject to modification): 

 

STAT 1380-001 (13341) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics  (final: Dec.11, 10-12:45)

LART 206

MWF 10:30-11:20 

STAT 1380-003 (13342) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics (final: Dec. 9, 1-3:45pm)

LART 203 403

MWF 11:30-12:20

MATH 5195-005 (14855) Graduate Seminar (“Teaching Mathematics and Statistics”)

(Final meeting: Dec. 9 4-6:45pm)

Bell Hall 130A

      F   1:30-2:20

MATH 5399-003 (GV; 14863) Thesis

Varies

Varies

MATH 5399-002 (RG; 17082) Thesis

Varies

Varies

PI of pending NSF CCLI grant that could start fall 2009; supporting faculty in US Department of Education grants Project LEAP-UP and Project ACE, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant SABE MAS; miscellaneous roles in CETaL, CenMaSTER, UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant, etc.;

Varies

e.g., SABEMAS is alternate Wednesdays 5:30-8:20

(A26,S9,S23,O7,O21,N4,N18,D2)

 

Co-Editor or Associate Editor of 3 international/national journals (Journal of Statistics Education, Journal of Mathematics and Culture, and Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics); active member(“activist”) of (and UTEP departmental liaison to) Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education and co-facilitator of one of its research clusters

Varies

Varies

 

Fall 2009 Bell Hall 213 OFFICE HOURS include Mon 9:30-10:20 & MW 1:30-2:20 (with additional hours and changes to be announced or posted) and by appointment (and please feel free to try dropping by without an appointment for quick questions—I’m around a lot!  mi oficina es su oficina; in addition, you can always feel free to ask me or leave me questions by phone or email at any time.    For my Stat 1380 students, there is yet another option offered by my TA, statistics graduate student Saul Soto, who has office hours TTh 12-1 in Bell Hall 206 (747-6756; sasoto3@miners.utep.edu).

 

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Dr. Lesser's Spring 2009 schedule:

 

STAT 5385 (25314) Statistics in Research (section for MAT Cohort VI)

Bell Hall 130A

M 5-7:50 pm 

MATH 5396 (21456) Graduate Research (section for MAT Cohort V) 

Bell Hall 130A

TTh 5-6:20 pm (may go to a modified or hybrid schedule)

Faculty participant in L. Everett’s NSF CCLI Phase 2 grant “Cultivating Authentic Discourse for the 2020 Engineer”

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through August 2009

Work with UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant

Varies

Varies

Key supporting faculty in Project ACE and Project LEAP-UP (also possible: SABE MAS and CenMaSTER)

Varies

Varies

 

Faculty chair of Statewide Discipline(math)-based Vertical Team for work of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and Texas Education Agency around college readiness

Varies

Varies

Co-Editor or Associate Editor of 3 international/national journals:  Journal of Statistics Education, Journal of Mathematics and Culture, Noticias de TODOS: Mathematics for ALL

Varies

Varies

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of (and UTEP departmental liaison to) Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

Dr. Lesser's Fall 2008 schedule:

STAT 1380-005 (13166) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 

 LART 203  403

MW 1:30-2:50 pm 

MATH 5365 (15384)  Technology in the Mathematics Classroom 

 Bell Hall 130A

MW 5-6:20 pm

Faculty participant in L. Everett’s NSF CCLI Phase 2 grant “Cultivating Authentic Discourse for the 2020 Engineer”

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through August 2009

Work with UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant

Varies

Varies

Key supporting faculty in Project ACE and Project LEAP-UP (also possible: SABE MAS and CenMaSTER)

Varies

Varies

 

Faculty chair of Statewide Discipline(math)-based Vertical Team for work of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and Texas Education Agency around college readiness

Varies

Varies

Co-Editor or Associate Editor of 3 international/national journals:  Journal of Statistics Education, Journal of Mathematics and Culture, Noticias de TODOS: Mathematics for ALL

Varies

Varies

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of (and UTEP departmental liaison to) Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

Dr. Lesser's Spring 2008 schedule:

MATH 5360 (23951) Introduction to Research in Mathematics Education (MAT Cohorts IV & V)

Bell Hall 130A

 

MW 5-6:20pm

MATH 5365 (23953) and MATH 4370 (22086): Technology in the Mathematics Classroom 

Bell Hall 130A

MW 6:30-7:50pm

Co-PI (with Tchoshanov) of Teacher Quality grant “Strengthening Middle Grades Teachers’ Quantitative Reasoning as Classroom Researchers” by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

May 2007 through

at least May 2008

Faculty participant in L. Everett’s NSF CCLI Phase 2 grant “Cultivating Authentic Discourse for the 2020 Engineer”

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through August 2009

Funded subaward project from UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant

Varies

Varies

Advisor for MAT Cohort Program

Varies

Varies

Supporting Faculty for Project ACE

Varies

Varies

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

 

 

Dr. Lesser's Fall 2007 schedule:

STAT 1380 (14046) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 

EDUC 203

TTh 12-1:20pm

STAT 1380 (14045) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 

Bell Hall 143

MW 1:30-2:50pm

STAT 5385 (15637) Statistics in Research (section for TQ & MAT Cohorts IV/V)

Bell Hall 130A

 

MW 5-6:20pm

Direction of Research Pedagogical  Laboratory work (via NSF’s Mathematics Science Partnership) at Henderson MS

@ Henderson MS and UTEP

Varies

Co-PI (with Tchoshanov) of Teacher Quality grant “Fostering Middle Grades Teachers’ Algebraic Thinking” funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

May 2006 through

at least May 2007

Co-PI (with Tchoshanov) of Teacher Quality grant “Strengthening Middle Grades Teachers’ Quantitative Reasoning as Classroom Researchers” by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

May 2007 through

at least May 2008

Key faculty participant in L. Everett’s NSF CCLI Phase 2 grant “Cultivating Authentic Discourse for the 2020 Engineer”

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through August 2009

Funded subaward project from UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant

Varies

Varies

Advisor for MAT Cohort Program

Varies

Varies

Supporting Faculty for Project ACE

Varies

Varies

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

 

Dr. Lesser's Summer 2007 schedule:

MATH 5360 (32270) Introduction to Research in Mathematics Education (MAT Cohort V takes this)

Team-taught with Dr. Kien Lim

Bell Hall 143

MTWTh 10-12:45 (which includes 15 min. break)

Direction of Research Pedagogical  Laboratory work (via NSF’s Mathematics Science Partnership) at Henderson MS

@ Henderson MS and UTEP

Varies

Co-PI (with Tchoshanov) of Teacher Quality grant “Fostering Middle Grades Teachers’ Algebraic Thinking” funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

May 2006 through at least May 2007

Co-PI (with Tchoshanov) of pending Teacher Quality grant “Strengthening Middle Grades Teachers’ Quantitative Reasoning as Classroom Researchers” by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

May 2007 through at least May 2008

Co-PI (with Kosheleva) of Teacher Quality grant “Project MEET: Mathematics Education Enhanced through Technology”, funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

January – July 2007

Key faculty participant in L. Everett’s NSF CCLI Phase 2 grant “Cultivating Authentic Discourse for the 2020 Engineer”

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through August 2009

Funded subaward project from UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant

Varies

varies

Advisor for MAT Cohort Program

varies

varies

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

 

Dr. Lesser’s Spring 2007 schedule:  

direction (with Tchoshanov) of  “Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics Through Professional Development Partnerships” grant awarded by Texas Education Agency (EMMAP)

Varies

2005-07 grant final report submitted April 2007 

Direction of Research Pedagogical  Laboratory work (via NSF’s Mathematics Science Partnership) at Henderson MS

@ Henderson MS and UTEP

Varies

MATH 4370-003 (21770)  Topics Seminar: Technology in the Mathematics Classroom

Bell Hall 130A

M 5-7:50

MATH 5365 (24294) Technology in the Mathematics Classroom  (MAT Cohort IV)

Bell Hall 130A

M 5-7:50

MATH 5370 (24309) Seminar:  Number Concepts, Probability and Statistics

from an Advanced Standpoint (4-8)  (for Master Mathematics Teacher students

(cancelled due to insufficient enrollment)

 

MATH 5399-003 (26366) Thesis (LM)

 

Varies

MATH 5396 (26426) Graduate Research (EL)

 

Varies

Co-PI (with Tchoshanov) of Teacher Quality grant “Fostering Middle Grades Teachers’ Algebraic Thinking” funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

May 2006 through at least May 2007

Co-PI (with Tchoshanov) of pending Teacher Quality grant “Strengthening Middle Grades Teachers’ Quantitative Reasoning as Classroom Researchers” by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

May 2007 through at least May 2008

Co-PI (with Kosheleva) of Teacher Quality grant “Project MEET: Mathematics Education Enhanced through Technology”, funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

January – July 2007

Key faculty participant in L. Everett’s NSF CCLI Phase 2 grant “Cultivating Authentic Discourse for the 2020 Engineer”

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through August 2009

Funded project as a subaward from UTEP’s Carnegie Foundation Teachers for a New Era grant

Varies

varies

Advisor for MAT Cohort Program

varies

varies

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

Dr. Lesser’s Fall 2006 schedule:

direction (w/Tchoshanov) of  “Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics Through Professional Development Partnerships” grant awarded by Texas Education Agency (EMMAP)

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through at least Feb. 2007

Direction of Research Pedagogical  Laboratory work (via NSF’s Mathematics Science Partnership) at Henderson MS

@ Henderson MS and UTEP

Varies

STAT 5385 (17505) Statistics in Research (section for MAT cohort 3)

Bell Hall 130

MW 5-6:20

MATH 5195 (19127) Graduate Seminar (“Teaching Mathematics and Statistics”)

Bell Hall 143

M 12:30-1:20

Co-PI on Tchoshanov’s  Teacher Quality grant “Fostering Middle Grades Teachers Algebraic Thinking” funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Varies

Varies; grant period goes through at least May 2007

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

Also:   Advising for MAT Cohort 4;

 

Dr. Lesser’s Summer 2006 schedule:

MATH 5370 (33633) Independent Study/Seminar

 varies

 

varies 

 

direction (w/Tchoshanov) of  “Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics Through Professional Development Partnerships” grant awarded by Texas Education Agency (EMMAP)

Varies

Varies; grant period ends October 2006 and may  get extended

Co-PI on  Teacher Quality grant “Fostering Middle Grades Teachers Algebraic Thinking” funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (PI: Tchoshanov)

 Varies

Varies; grant period ends May 2007 and may get extended

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

Dr. Lesser’s Spring 2006 schedule:

varies; usually TTh late afternoon-evening

direction (w/Tchoshanov) of “Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics Through Professional Development Partnerships” grant awarded by Texas Education Agency

@ UTEP or Tierra del Sol ES; serving middle school teachers from several El Paso schools 

Tues 5-7:50 pm

MATH 5370 (27852) Number Concepts, Probability and Statistics from an Advanced Standpoint

Bell Hall 143

varies

Research Pedagogical  Laboratory work (via NSF’s Mathematics Science Partnership)

@ Henderson MS, etc.

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

Also:   Advising for MAT Cohort 4;  teaching “lottery literacy” course for PACE

Dr. Lesser’s Fall 2005 schedule:


varies; usually TTh late afternoon-evening

implementation of “Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics Through Professional Development Partnerships” grant awarded by Texas Education Agency to Tchoshanov/Lesser

@ UTEP or Tierra del Sol ES; serving middle school teachers from several El Paso schools 

MW 12-1:20; MW1:30-2:50

STAT 1380-001 (16658) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 

STAT 1380-003 (16659) Basics of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 

LART 222;

LART 205

MW 5-6:20

MATH 5385 (16678) Statistics in Research (“MAT” section—cohort 2)

Bell Hall143

varies

Research Pedagogical  Laboratory work (via NSF’s Mathematics Science Partnership)

@ Henderson MS, etc.

Member of the Research Advisory Board of CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education); active member (“activist”) of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Varies

Varies

Dr. Lesser’s Spring 2005 schedule:


Mon 5-8pm

MATH 5365 (27639) Technology in the Mathematics Classroom;

MATH 4370 – section 3 (28687)  Topics Seminar

Bell Hall 130A; LART 211

varies

MATH 4399-- section 9 (28998) Individual Studies in Mathematics

TBA

Tues 5-8pm

MATH 5370 (25603) Number Concepts, Probability and Statistics from an Advanced Standpoint

UGLC 208; Bell Hall ACES lab;

Wed until 2ish

Research Pedagogical  Laboratory work (via NSF’s Mathematics Science Partnership)

@ Henderson MS

 

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Dr. Lesser’s Fall 2004 schedule:


T & Th  entire mornings*

team-taught 3-course Block I-B for EC4 Generalists, meeting both mornings at Canutillo ES in Canutillo, TX;

Math 3305 (17533) is Conceptual Mathematics from Multiple Perspectives I

@ Canutillo ES (room 119)

T & Th 1:30-2:50pm

STAT 1380 (17610) Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 

@ UTEP in LART 209

Wed until about 2 pm

Research Pedagogical  Laboratory

@ Henderson MS

 

 

 

 * = actual meeting & break times will vary within the 8-12:20 interval to accommodate flow and needs of the three courses and instructors