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Basic Skills for Future Nursing StudentsMathematics& Intensive Pre-Nursing/Health Bridge Program
Strengthening Student Success ConferenceOctober 4, 2007
Justine Wong, Mathematics [email protected]
Lyssette Trejo, Mt. San Antonio [email protected]
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Mount Everest by Kevin Floyd 1987
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Setting a Personal Learning Goal
This session will be
valuable to me if …
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Welcome & House keeping
Please remember to turn off cell phones, pagers, and other alarms
Observations and experiences Description Quick poll Possible audience sharing
Thank you
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High School Mathematics Teachers
22,000 increase to a total of 134,000 between 1990 and 2000
90% of the teachers who were assigned to teach high school mathematics classes were certified to teach mathematics in 1990
86% in 2000
(Blank & Langesen, 2001)
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Middle School Mathematics Teachers
44,000 increase to a total of 124,000 between 1994 and 2000
66% were certified in mathematics in 2000
Among the 50 states, only 11 have over 80% certified in mathematics in 2000
(Blank & Langesen, 2001)
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Crisis or Opportunity
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Education
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Challenge
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
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Patience
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Malcolm X
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Success
Determination + Discipline + Hard Work Equal Success
Jaime Escalante
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Pygmalion effect
The idea that one's expectations about a person can eventually lead that person to behave and achieve in ways that conform to those expectations.
Rosenthal and Jacobson's PYGMALION IN THE CLASSROOM (1968), Tauber, R. (1998)
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Professional Learning
Additive Learning—the addition of new skills to an existing repertoire
Transformative Learning—substantial changes in deeply held beliefs, knowledge, and habits of practice
Thompson & Zueli, 1999
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What are learning styles?
Learning styles (modality preferences) are simply different approaches or ways of learning.
Learning styles
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Types of learning styles
Visual Learners
Auditory Learners
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Learning styles
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This page is from: www.2Learn.ca's Tools: Graphic Organizers - Venn Diagrams
http://http://www.2Learn.ca/construct/graphicorg/venn/vennindex.html
Knowledge
(what to, why to)
Skills
(how to)
Desire
(want to)
Habits
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
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College Readiness Standards
Process
Problem SolvingCommunicationReasoning & ProofConnections
Content
Number SenseGeometryStatistics &
ProbabilityAlgebraFunctions
Washington State Mathematics Standards
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Communications
I ________ math because …
One time in math I felt …
Explain a procedure to a friend
TIPS
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Writing across the curriculum
Challenge
Training
Support
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Another approach
Whole-person learning
Combine experiential with cognitive learning
Enhanced learning
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Addressing the Affective Domain
Personal Epistemology
Views about one’s own knowing & learning
Emotions
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Ask students--True or False?
I can’t do math. Math is always hard. Only smart people can do math. Mathematicians always do math
problems quickly in their heads. If I don’t understand a problem
immediately, I never will.
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Negative Experience
Thoughts
I can’t do math
EmotionsI am frightened by math
BehaviorsI avoid numbersI don’t practice
math
Body sensationsMy stomach tenses
when I see numbers
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Positive Experience
ThoughtsI can do some mathI don’t need to get it
all right now
EmotionsI am frightened by math
Behaviors
I avoid numbers
I don’t practice math
Body sensations
My stomach tenses when I see numbers
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Effective words for Re-frames
“Yet”
“For now”
“At this moment”
Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten
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Student Thinking
Ability to explain work
Ab
ility to p
erform
Don’t Know
Know
Can’t
Do
MysteriousUnknown
TheoreticalUnable to
Demonstrate
Can
Do
MagicalUnexplained
IntentionalDeliberate Practice
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Resources and Tools
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
www.asccc.org A Writer’s Reference
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx
Dave’s ESL Café
http://www.eslcafe.com/
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Resources and Tools
How to Be a Great Math Student
by Richard Manning Smith Managing the Mean Math Blues
by Cheryl Ooten Mathematical Association of America
www.maa.org
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Resources and Tools
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics www.nctm.org
Nursing & Allied Health Math Tutorial
Resources for California Community College Associate Degree Nursing Program
Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing edited by Barbara Hofer and Paul R. Pintrich
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Resources & Tools
www.SkillsTutor.com Study Guides and Strategies http://
www.studygs.net/