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Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis
for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board
Faculty Vita
Christine Oster, MBA
Title: Visiting lecturer in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, teaching math education.Office: W. W. Wright Education Building, room 3288
Campus: Bloomington
Academic Degrees
| B.A. | Hood College | 1970 | Early Childhood Education |
| MBA | Indiana University | 1987 | Production/Operations Management |
Certification/Licenses
| Indiana Teacher's License: Elementary, Kindergarten and Math (grades 1-9) endorsements. |
Professional Experience
| 2002-present | Visiting Lecturer, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Mathematics Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana |
| 1999-2002 | Second Grade Teacher, Monroe County Community School Corporation, Bloomington, Indiana |
| 1994-1999 | First Grade Teacher, Monroe County Community School Corporation, Bloomington, Indiana |
| 1993-1994 | Fifth Grade Teacher, Monroe County Community School Corporation, Bloomington, Indiana |
| 1992-1993 | Director, Child Care Center, Hoosier Hills Area Vocational School, Bloomington, Indiana |
| 1988-1989 | Production Consultant, Westinghouse ABB, Bloomington, Indiana |
Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships
- NCTM
- Indiana Council for Teachers of Mathematics
- Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics
Conference Presentations
- November, 2001: Presented session "Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics 2002," ICTM Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
October, 2000: Presented "Linking the NCTM Standards to Classroom Practice," SCAEYC Fall Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.
October, 1997: Presented "Counting: It's Harder than You Think!" SCAEYC Fall Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.
Service/Outreach Projects
- August, 2002, San Diego, CA, Presented Mathematical Perspectives five-day professional development workshop for K - 2 teachers, San Diego Public Schools.
July, 2002, Pueblo, CO, Aurora, CO, Presented professional development workshops for teachers, Number Talks for Mathematical Perspectives.
May, 2002, Bloomington, IN, Panelist, "The Math Wars: Back to Basics of Forward to New Basics?" Web broadcast with Frank K. Lester and Keith Bobay, School of Education, Indiana University.
July, 2001, Bellingham, WA, Presented Assessment Workshop for Mathematical Perspectives and attended leader retreat.
Spring, 2001-present, Bloomington, IN, Member, 21st Century Teachers Project, Indiana University.
February 2001, Jay, IN, Presented Mathematical Perspectives in-service, Westlawn Elementary.
January, 2000, Bloomington, IN, Presented a K-2 math forum for Clear Creek Elementary teachers to facilitate their goals as part of their PBA accreditation.
Summer, 1998, Bloomington, IN, Designed and implemented a 20 day summer school math program, K-3, using Developing Number Concepts by Kathy Richardson as the curriculum, MCCSC.
1998, Bloomington, IN, Faculty representative, Math Adoption Committee.
Honors/Awards
- April, 2001, Bloomington, IN Outstanding Service Award, South Central Association for the Education of Young Children, for modeling excellence in the appropriate practices of teaching mathematics.
March 2001, Washington, D.C. Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2000, Elementary mathematics, Indiana, Awarded by the National Science Foundation.
May, 2000, PAEMST finalist for elementary math from the state of Indiana.
Fall, 1998, Bloomington, IN MCCSC Employee Recognition Award, Performance Award.
More information is available on the Web for Christine Oster at: http://php.indiana.edu/~subude
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