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 [email protected]Lyssette Trejo, Mt. San Antonio College [email protected]
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Basic Skills for Future Nursing StudentsMathematics& Intensive Pre-Nursing/Health Bridge Program
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Observations and experiences Description Quick poll Possible audience sharing
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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)
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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)
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Crisis or Opportunity
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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.
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Challenge
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
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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
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Success
Determination + Discipline + Hard Work Equal Success
Jaime Escalante
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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)
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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
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What are learning styles?
Learning styles (modality preferences) are simply different approaches or ways of learning.
Learning styles
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Types of learning styles
Visual Learners
Auditory Learners
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Learning styles
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