Announcement of the online program for SEAMEO School Network (free of charge)
Online Program by CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Title:

Problem Solving Approach for Lower Secondary Level (Grades 7-9)
‘Teaching Mathematics to Develop Mathematical Thinking as Higher Order Thinking:
How do you teach? Why?’ Part VI

Provided by
CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan: Affiliate Member of SEAMEO
Lectured by
Masami Isoda, Prof/PhD, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Gan Teck Hock (Malaysia) & Teh Kim Hong (ASMEP, Malaysia)

With the support and contribution of (tentative)
Sumardyono & Uki Rahmawati (SEAMEO-QITEP in Mathematics, Indonesia), Maitree Inprasitha,(Khon Kaen University, Thailand), Nguyen Chi Thanh (Vietnamin National University), Aida Yap (Universityof the Philippines-NISMED, Philippines), Raimundo Olfos & Soledad Estrella (Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Valparaíso, Chile), Marcela Santillán (Universidad Pedagogica National, Mexico) and Yuriko
Yamamoto Baldin (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil)

Course Summary
On OECD Education for 2030 (2019), Student Agency means students who ‘learned howto learnʼ. For this issue, the objective of this online lecture is to establish Teacher Agency
that develops students who learn mathematics by and for themselves by using task
sequences to develop mathematical thinking. In the past three courses (Part I to Part III), we
focused on terminologies explaining why we teach them at the primary school level wefocused on terminologies for establishment of appropriate teaching sequence which explain
why we teach them at the primary school level.

The courses were illustrated by thecurriculum and learning standards SEA-BES: CCRLS, which provides basic ideas ofmathematics curriculum; and the task sequences for Problem Solving Approaches(Teaching Mathematics through Problem Solving).
The new course, Part VI, focuses on various Problem
Solving Approaches by using the guidebook for teachers’
professional development of Lower Secondary Level (Grade 7to Grade 9). Consecutively, it continues from Part IV for Lower
Primary Level (Grades 1 to 3) and Part V for Upper Primary(Grades 4 to Grade 6).
The guidebook for this Part VI course forLower Secondary Level which consisted ofmaterials to develop curriculum knowledge
for teaching is shown on the right:

Course Content, Registration and Certifications
It is a free program on SEAMEO priority areas #5 for ʻRevitalizing Teacher Educationʼ and#7 for ʻAdopting 21st Century Curriculumʼ. CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan, provides
the certifications to participants at the end of the course.
Each online lecture will be provided on a consecutive sequence based on the course
roadmap. Participants cannot skip any lesson because each lesson uses ideas which werealready discussed. At the end of each lesson, participants need to do a short questionnairefor knowing how the lesson worked. Only participants that answer the questionnaire willreceive the URL for the next lecture. This feedback from participants is used for evaluation ofthe program itself and as attendance confirmation, but not as an evaluation of the participants.
Course Roadmap for Part VI in 2023
Topic

Title of Lesson (tentative)

Schedule(Tentative)

Part VI
Lower
SecondaryLevel(Grades 7 to 9)

1. Open Approach & Inquiry-based

August 26th

Investigation to Learn New Ideas
2. Problem Solving Approach and

September 2nd

Task Sequencing
3. Dialectic Approach & Analysing

September 9th

Misconception of Ideas
4. How to Utilize Various Teaching

September 16thApproaches
All the lessons will begin on Saturday evening from 19:00 (Japan time GMT+9) througha live streaming via YouTube. Each lesson will be approximately 75 minutes long which
include assessment.
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Registration form (Deadline June 29th, 2023): https://forms.gle/jhAi6TinsMSV1yH26
Contact
Masami Isoda, Prof/PhD. Director of CRICED, University of Tsukuba, 305-8572, Japan.
Inquiry form for the course: https://forms.gle/4RNRfexJgYwpRJEdA

Further Information
https://www.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/seameo.html
Past Courses
https://www.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/online-contents.html
https://www.jv-campus.org/en/user/category/education/
ReferenceGan, T. H., Isoda, M., & Teh, K. H (2021). Mathematics challenges for classroom
practices at the lower secondary level. Penang, Malaysia: SEAMEO-RECSAM