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Design Project Proposal

My beginning idea is to come up with ways for math teachers to use communications in their classroom to help develop math concepts and understanding.

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A. Instructional Problem

In math classrooms many students have a hard time learning topics and understanding concepts. Students are just memorizing formulas and how the teacher uses them or definitions of certain terms. After their assessment many students have forgotten what they just memorized because it was not learned.

B. Nature of What is to be Learned

Math teachers will learn how to use different types of communications in their classrooms to help the learning and understanding of ideas.

C. About Learners

The mini-course will be for those who are either teaching or pre-instructional teachers for middle or high school mathematics. The participants will become knowledgeable in different ways to in which students can learn other than just doing problems. The participants will also have some ideas on ways to assess the knowledge that students just learned.

D. Goals

1. For teachers to have students use different types of communications to help with their understanding
2. For teachers to have different ways to assess students to show understanding of mathematics

Learning Objectives

1. The educator will be able to identify different types of communications skills to be used in a classroom.
2. The educator be able to explain when a communication skill would be useful.

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