Talk:Kimberly Brooks

Instructor comments on your topic and instructional analysis -- Jz833665 (talk) 12:02, 23 February 2015 (EST)

Hi Kimberly,

Your mini-course will be very helpful for teacher learners. Please proceed to conduct the needs assessment and learning analysis to identify the gaps in teachers' practice and knowledge that you will specific address through your mini-course. Meanwhile, you may build a reference list to identify the critical research base in this area that you use to create your mini-course.

Instructor comments on your objectives -- Jz833665 (talk) 14:53, 7 April 2015 (EDT)

Hi Kimberly,

Your course-level objectives give you a clear direction for the design of this mini-course. Your objectives may be refined using more accurate performance verbs/actions and through more careful sequencing based on their progressive relationships. See my specific comments below:

Demonstrate an effective strategy that they used to teach students problem solving skills.

How do you expect the participants to demonstrate the strategy: through describing the strategy with examples, or designing and carrying lessons that incorporate the strategies??

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the importance of the incorporation of problem solving skills in a mathematics classroom.

As I understand, this objective is about an attitude to be obtained. Instead of using the verb "demonstrate," attitude-based objectives can be described using verbs such as to justify or recognize (the importance/needs of...) or to choose to (incorporate...) Also, do you think this attitude-based objective should be addressed by learning the specific strategies so should be your first objective?

Create a lesson plan that includes at least one strategy used to teach problem solving skills and at least one connection to the real world.

What do you mean by "at least one connection to the real world?"

Please refine your objectives and work out your task analysis/curriculum map accordingly.