When we wrote the GeT Support proposal to NSF, we proposed to bring high school teachers of geometry into the conversations about Geometry courses for teachers. Because our initial moves toward forming the community showed that there already was a large diversity of perspectives among GeT instructors, we delayed that aspect of our proposed work. As the work of GeT: A Pencil has continued and fructified, we believe this might be a moment when we can bring in high school geometry teachers. Additionally, our community has, over time, involved other GeT Instructors who have not yet joined a working group. We are hoping to build an opportunity for that kind of participation.

There are two goals of this effort. The first goal is to promote a dialogue across high school geometry teachers and GeT instructors that can help make each group better aware of needs and goals. We surmise that GeT instructors could use additional knowledge about what the work of teaching high school geometry involves, and experienced high school geometry teachers could use more information about what happens in current GeT courses. Second, as our community has produced the first version of a set of essential student learning objectives for GeT courses and their elaborations–a living document, we think this new working group will provide a space to produce questions, reactions, and perhaps proposed revisions. Now that getapencil.org is up and running, the new working group might generate material to seed conversations in the forum. We also hope this group might propose some writing for the book in preparation. For example, it is reasonable to hope that some of the high school teachers in the group might collaborate to write about the SLOs from the high school teacher perspective–perhaps considering what they would like new hires to know and be able to do. It might also be reasonable to hope that GeT instructors in this new working group would have ideas for teaching or assessment activities that they would like to develop and connect with the SLOs through writing a book chapter.   

The new working group meets every other week on Thursdays at 4:00 pm ET.