Maria H. AndersenMath DepartmentMuskegon Community College

Why a Community College?(a.k.a. why I didn’t finish my PhD the first time)

Reason #1:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlottel/154443920/

Reason #2:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/loritingey/350043329/

Cushy Landing

What philosophies (theories, writers, beliefs) have informed your teaching?

(a.k.a. How do you learn what you were not taught in Grad School)

Illustration by Mat Moore, Muskegon MI

Reflect.

You will learn something from

every change.(as long as you look)

For reading,start here.

Read in your field.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

Read blogs. Write a blog.(it’s becoming a rite of passage for work in the digital space)

Seek Balance

Wow!

What’s stimulating about teaching at a Community College?

What kinds of scholarship am I involved in?

(a.k.a. will your brain eventually become mush from teaching at a CC?)

I am a failure at quitting Grad School.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Community College Math Instructors: The Search for a KAP Gap in Collegiate Math (only 18 words … I’ll have to try harder to win the dissertation title contest)

I write.

Not because I have to, but because I want to.

Learning FuturistThe LIFT Institute

Research.

Educational research.

Does research about students at institutions like this …

… transfer to students at schools like this?

Propose an intervention.

Verify intervention is well-grounded in research. (i.e. Lit Review)

Perform study about intervention.

Write up results.

Submit for publication.(peer review)

Wait a year.

We can’t afford this pace.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/randysonofrobert/2763801867/

A new model for research?

Crowdsourcing.

An example.

28,000CC Math Instructors in the U.S.

Suppose we created a research “pipeline” directly from Universities to the CC instructors that could collect the data.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/225007470

28,000CC Math Instructors in the U.S.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flatfield/137152185/

Publish research teasers in

“radical” formats.

Publish some part of your research

on the open web.

Questions?

Contact: busynessgirl@gmail.com