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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 EducatorJustineWong2000@aol.com

Lyssette Trejo, Mt. San Antonio Collegeltrejo@mtsac.edu

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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

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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/