Talk:Jenna's Portfolio

Instructor comments on your project -- Jz833665 11:27, 17 October 2011 (EDT)

Jenna, You've have a productive first phase in this design project, which focuses on an important and timely topic. A few suggestions for you to consider: Just to remind you: teaching for understanding requires teachers to be able to understand and monitor student understanding through ongoing informal/formal information collection/assessment. Will you include this element in your mini-course? Your learning objectives can be further elaborated.

descriminate between "knowledge" and "understanding"

by stating the differences verbally? by giving examples from students in math classrooms?...

demonstrate effective educational strategies to create lessons of deep understanding

list at least 3 effective strategies to monitor student understanding of core math concepts... Develop effective strategies to foster student deep understanding when presented with a classroom scenario...

identify the connection of the NYS Mathematics and Common Core Standards to teaching for understanding

identify and connect generative topics in the NYS Mathematics and Common Core Standards to teaching for understanding...

Instructor comments on your task analysis -- Jz833665 20:33, 13 November 2011 (EST)

Jenna, Your task analysis has generated the basic info needed to structure your mini-course (although you could be more specific about the enabling and supporting prerequisites as related to the objectives). Please go ahead to develop your units. As you work on your units, feel free to further narrow down your focus to a few specific math concepts (instead of the whole curriculum) or to a few most important teaching strategies, in case you find your current plan too ambitious and time demanding.