By Betsy Rhame, ’01

Meredith will host the fourth biennial and first international Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) Conference March 8-10. About 200 educators are expected to attend.

CGI is a professional development program for teachers, and a research-based way of teaching mathematics. Meredith was the first institution in North Carolina to teach this method to its education students. According to Jane Gleason, professor of education, and the conference chair, Meredith is one of the few institutions in North Carolina that embraces CGI at the undergraduate math level. The late Gwen Clay, professor of mathematics, had early involvement in this method at Meredith.

At the conference’s beginning on March 8, Eleanor Duckworth, a well-known professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education will speak. On March 9 and 10, participants will spend their days in workshops on campus. Speakers will include mathematics educators from around the country, and Scotland, Israel and Iceland.

For more information, or to register for the conference, visit http://home.nc.rr.com/cgiraleigh2007.