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Strengthening Student Success Conference October 4, 2007 Justine Wong, Mathematics Educator

Basic Skills for Future Nursing Students Mathematics & Intensive Pre-Nursing/Health Bridge Program. Strengthening Student Success Conference October 4, 2007 Justine Wong, Mathematics Educator JustineWong2000@aol.com Lyssette Trejo, Mt. San Antonio College ltrejo@mtsac.edu.

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Strengthening Student Success Conference October 4, 2007 Justine Wong, Mathematics Educator

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  1. Basic Skills for Future Nursing StudentsMathematics& Intensive Pre-Nursing/Health Bridge Program Strengthening Student Success Conference October 4, 2007 Justine Wong, Mathematics Educator JustineWong2000@aol.com Lyssette Trejo, Mt. San Antonio College ltrejo@mtsac.edu

  2. Mount Everest by Kevin Floyd 1987

  3. Setting a Personal Learning Goal This session will be valuable to me if …

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. Middle School Mathematics Teachers • 44,000 increase to a total of 124,000 between 1994 and 2000 • 66% were certified in mathematicsin 2000 • Among the 50 states, only 11 have over 80%certified in mathematicsin 2000 (Blank & Langesen, 2001)

  7. Crisis or Opportunity

  8. 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.

  9. Challenge It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus

  10. 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

  11. Success Determination + Discipline + Hard Work Equal Success Jaime Escalante

  12. 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)

  13. 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

  14. What are learning styles? • Learning styles (modality preferences) are simply different approaches or ways of learning. Learning styles

  15. Types of learning styles • Visual Learners • Auditory Learners • Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners Learning styles

  16. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey Knowledge (what to, why to) Habits Skills (how to) Desire (want to)

  17. Process Problem Solving Communication Reasoning & Proof Connections Content Number Sense Geometry Statistics & Probability Algebra Functions College Readiness Standards Washington State Mathematics Standards

  18. Communications • I ________ math because … • One time in math I felt … • Explain a procedure to a friend • TIPS

  19. Writing across the curriculum • Challenge • Training • Support

  20. Another approach • Whole-person learning • Combine experiential with cognitive learning • Enhanced learning A Way of Being by Carl R. Rogers

  21. Addressing the Affective Domain • Personal Epistemology Views about one’s own knowing & learning • Emotions

  22. 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.

  23. Negative Experience Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten

  24. Positive Experience Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten

  25. Effective words for Re-frames “Yet” “For now” “At this moment” Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten

  26. Student Thinking

  27. Resources and Tools • Academic Senate for California Community Colleges www.asccc.org • A Writer’s Referencehttp://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx • Dave’s ESL Café http://www.eslcafe.com/

  28. 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

  29. 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 ofBeliefs about Knowledge and Knowing edited by Barbara Hofer and Paul R. Pintrich

  30. Resources & Tools • www.SkillsTutor.com • Study Guides and Strategies http://www.studygs.net/

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