Audience and Why The audience of my capstone is inevitably going to be fellow educators, in particular, educators in the mathematics content area. Although I ultimately wanted to address my students in my capstone, I realized that my goal and probably every other educator’s goal which is to promote social justice, achieve equity and to close the achievement gap would better be achieved by spreading knowledge to other educators. My hope is that my fellow educators will find what I have to offer worthy of implementing in their own classroom and therefore supporting and affecting more students than I can do alone. Mathematics can be intimidating and downright challenging. Some issues we face in the math classroom are the fact that students are not achieving procedural fluency of skills and concepts and many are left behind. For many of our students, it is in one ear and out the other or they never learn the concept but it is on to a new thing. No matter what the roadblock is, we as educators have to find the most effective instructional methods to engage students, deepen learning, and to prepare them for the 21st century. There are still so many educators who are stuck on traditional instruction whether it be because they do not know any other way (have not had any substantial professional development or training), they are scared, they have no time, or whether they feel it’s too much work to learn something new. These are the educators I want to reach. If I can make implementing digital tools and innovative learning more simple, I hope that I can convert them. Ideas for Content of Learn More Pages In my Learn More pages, I hope to include various lessons to teach students about digital citizenship first as well as mathematical content lessons, assessments, PrBL units (cognitively complex tasks), how to videos, math tools and resources, and other resources like graphic organizers and so on. Ideas on How to Engage and Teach My Audience
To engage and teach my audience, I think having a short description of each thing is important. If there are too many links to choose from and I get frustrated and don’t know where to start, I personally sometimes skip a lot of things or leave the page. If I can see a short synopsis of the item and I can use that to determine if the content is going to be helpful to me, I am more likely to stay on the page and explore. I think thumbnails are also very helpful. For math teachers, pre-made lessons and worksheets that are well-made is like finding treasure so I think having those available and highlighting those will be effective. I also think providing descriptions of the math tools almost like a short review, pros, cons, what it’s used for, tutorial how to video, and maybe an accompanying lesson would be very engaging. I think data demonstrating how it was used in a classroom and the results can also be used to engage and teach my audience. A lot of the charts, graphs, statistical data, and qualitative data may be compelling for my audience. Without being able to survey other educators in my content area, I am pretty much going off of what I would like to see as an educator in the math field. I like it fast and simple. Tell me what you’re offering. What it does. Show me that it has been effective in your classroom. Tell me how I can implement it and finally, provide all the materials and resources and I am happy. I am interested to hear what my colleagues and other educators would like to see whether they are in the math content area or any other content.
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Nancy
9/26/2017 09:26:20 pm
Hi Nai,
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dan
9/28/2017 08:54:07 am
Nai,
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