Conti to present President's Award for Teaching and Learning lecture
Senior Lecturer Kimberly Conti
Kimberly Conti, senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, will give a presentation as the recipient of the 2018 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 1 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.
Her talk is entitled, “’I’m so distracted!’ and Other Things We Want Students to Say.” Ms. Conti will be introduced by President Virginia S. Horvath.
The public is invited to attend the free event and a reception will follow in the Mason Hall lobby.
Ms. Conti, originally from Salamanca, N.Y., completed her undergraduate studies at the State University of New York Fredonia in 1988, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Math-Secondary Education. In the fall of 1988, Ms. Conti was offered a graduate assistantship at Syracuse University, where she taught Calculus I and completed a year of graduate work. From Syracuse, Ms. Conti spent three years at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, as a military wife, high school teacher and mother of two children.
Ms, Conti and her family moved back to the area in 1992 and she enrolled in Fredonia’s graduate school, earning a Master of Education degree in December 1994. During her last semester of graduate work, she was offered a position teaching two courses for the Department of Mathematics, and she has been teaching at Fredonia since the fall semester of 1994. Ms. Conti was awarded the title of Senior Lecturer in 2016.
Within Fredonia’s Department of Mathematical Sciences, she has taught a variety of classes during her 24-plus years in the department. Currently, she teaches some of the Mathematics for School Teachers courses, as well as a pre-calculus course. She also helped design and teach MATH 110 (Math in Action), MATH 120 (Survey of Calculus 1), Math Methods, two Honors Seminars and a number of other courses.
Her passion in teaching is discovering how people learn, and her recent quest is to investigate brain-friendly teaching, and teaching to promote a growth mindset, which Ms. Conti noted, has led her to rethink how she teaches and assesses her students.
