1. Basic Skills for Future Nursing Students Mathematics & Intensive Pre-Nursing/Health Bridge Program
Strengthening Student Success Conference
October 4, 2007
Justine Wong, Mathematics Educator
Lyssette Trejo, Mt. San Antonio College

2. Mount Everest by Kevin Floyd 1987

3. Setting a Personal Learning Goal
This session will be
valuable to me if …

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. Crisis or Opportunity

8. 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.

9. Challenge
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus

10. 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

11. Determination + Discipline + Hard Work Equal Success
Jaime Escalante

12. 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)

13. 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

15. What are learning styles?
Learning styles (modality preferences) are simply different approaches or ways of learning.
Learning styles

16. Types of learning styles
Visual Learners
Auditory Learners
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Learning styles

17. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
                                                                                                                                                                    
This page is from: Tools: Graphic Organizers - Venn Diagrams  
Knowledge
(what to, why to)
Habits
Skills
(how to)
Desire
(want to)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

18. College Readiness Standards
Process
Problem Solving
Communication
Reasoning & Proof
Connections
Content
Number Sense
Geometry
Statistics & Probability
Algebra
Functions
Washington State Mathematics Standards

19. Communications I ________ math because … One time in math I felt …
Explain a procedure to a friend
TIPS

20. Writing across the curriculum
Challenge
Training
Support

21. Another approach Whole-person learning
Combine experiential with cognitive learning
Enhanced learning
A Way of Being by Carl R. Rogers

22. Addressing the Affective Domain
Personal Epistemology
Views about one’s own knowing & learning
Emotions

23. 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.

24. My stomach tenses when I see numbers
Negative Experience
Thoughts
I can’t do math
Emotions
I am frightened by math
Behaviors
I avoid numbers
I don’t practice math
Body sensations
My stomach tenses when I see numbers
Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten

25. Positive Experience Thoughts I can do some math
I don’t need to get it all right now
Emotions
I am frightened by math
Behaviors
I avoid numbers
I don’t practice math
Body sensations
My stomach tenses when I see numbers
Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten

26. Effective words for Re-frames
“Yet”
“For now”
“At this moment”
Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten

27. Student Thinking Ability to explain work Ability to perform Don’t Know
Can’t Do
Mysterious
Unknown
Theoretical
Unable to
Demonstrate
Can
Magical
Unexplained
Intentional
Deliberate Practice

28. Resources and Tools Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
A Writer’s Reference
Dave’s ESL Café

29. 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

30. Resources and Tools
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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

31. Resources & Tools www.SkillsTutor.com
Study Guides and Strategies