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Due: May 1, 2007 10 Points (5% of your final grade)
| Exploring professional journals is an important
element of teacher preparation. It helps you to maintain awareness of
current thinking and innovations in teaching and learning and prepares
you to think critically about their application in your future career.
There is a lot of information below, which is designed to make the
assignment less difficult - this is a brief review of only one page. If
you have questions about the assignment, please ask me for help. As with
all written work in professional courses, the review should be typed,
double-spaced.
Objective
To explore instructional resources for teachers of elementary and
middle level school mathematics. You will read an article from a journal
published by NCTM that focuses on teaching and learning mathematics and
write a review in which you discuss ways the information in the article
will influence your own teaching of mathematics.
Assignment
Select an article regarding a topic of interest to you from
Teaching Children Mathematics or Mathematics Teaching in the
Middle School and prepare a brief review of the article that
will be shared and discussed in class.
Think about how the information in the article you have selected
will be useful in improving mathematics instruction.
Write a review using specific examples from the article to
support your views.
Your report should contain the following elements:
- A brief summary that includes the title of the article,
author, and journal, and two or three main points from the
article that you feel are useful in improving mathematics
instruction
(2 points)
- A brief summary of the article (2 points)
- An analysis that includes specific examples of the ways you
intend to use the information from the article to improve
mathematics instruction. (3 points)
Did your reading affirm or
contradict your ideas about mathematics teaching?
Is what
you read about similar to or different from how you were
taught as a child? lHow?
Did any
(or all) of the articles cause you to rethink how you might
teach mathematics? If so, how will your teaching be
different?
What do
you think of this journal as a resource for teachers?
Do you
think you might to subscribe to any of them? Why or why not?
Note: Part 3 is the critical portion of the written
review.
The review would be approximately one page in length.
Prepare a 5 minute presentation for the class summarizing the
article and how it can be used by you and your classmates in your
future classrooms. (3 points)
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