Empowering Math Minds: How to Enhance Your Math Teaching Practices by Using Open-Ended Questions | Dr. Kimberly Hansel
This session will support Math and GED teachers to begin their journey with using open-ended questioning and tasks to develop deeper conceptual understanding of mathematics.
During the workshop, participants work collaboratively to solve some open-ended problems and tasks and learn to covert closed-ended problems into open-ended problems in math.
Dr. Kimberly Hansel
Dr. Kimberly Hansel has worked in education for 26 years. She’s spent 11 years in the classroom as a full-time mathematics teacher, and 15 years coaching mathematics teachers as well as various curriculum and instruction leadership positions.
She is currently the Chief Education Officer and a part-time mathematics teacher at the Greater West Town Community Development Project.
Dr. Hansel earned her Educational Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Aurora University in 2022, where her dissertation topic explored using open-ended questioning in mathematics.