Lorraine Baron

Year: 2006 – Province: British Columbia

Certificate of Excellence Recipient

School: Mount Boucherie Secondary School
2751 Cameron Road
Kelowna, British Columbia
V1Z 2T6

Principal: Norman Bradley
School Telephone: 250-712-7040
School Fax: 250-870-5001
School Website: www.mbs.sd23.bc.ca
Grades/Subjects Taught: Grades 11 and 12 and AP, Mathematics and Calculus

Teaching Approach:

• Understands that students learn in various ways and that sometimes, it takes a multiplicity of methods of teaching one same concept before the idea really takes hold in a student's mind.
• Developed number study-guide resources that organize the required concepts of each course in a clear and logical order.
• Provides opportunities for students to be actively engaged in hands-on learning through the use of learning packages, which include a variety of multi-media technologies.
• Posts learning materials generated by herself and students on websites for other teachers and students to reference. Often encourages her students to actively search the internet for use in her own classroom.
• Integrates various teaching methods to teach very complex methods of calculus. She uses graphic, numeric, and analytic methodologies to help her students make sense of the mathematics they are learning.

Outstanding Achievements:

• For years, Ms. Baron has been organizing the BC Association of Mathematics Teachers' Interior Mathematics Conference. Hundreds of teachers from the Interior of BC attend every February. Ms. Baron acts as the Chair and Head Organizer for the conference.
• Over the past seven years, Ms. Baron has played an instrumental role in the development of the Provincial Ministry of Education documents with respect to Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment.
• Ms. Baron was selected to participate as one of the members of the Grade 10-12 Mathematics Writing Team from 1999-2000.
• Ms. Baron was selected by the Ministry of Education in leadership roles such as the Chairperson for the Applications of Mathematics 10 Examination Specifications Development Committee in 2003-2004.
• In 2005, Ms. Baron was invited to the Canadian Mathematics Education Forum in Toronto. The purpose of the forum was to develop a national on-going conversation, among educators at all levels of schooling, about important issues and concerns in the development and future of mathematics education in Canada.

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