July 13, 2010
“Community colleges are the point of entry to higher education for the majority of nation’s
first generation, minority and low-income students. But there is a harsh reality that these
students may not understand when they receive their English and Math placement results:
the more semesters of remedial courses a student is required to take, the more remote that
student’s chances of passing college-level Math or English and being eligible to transfer
or earn a degree…”
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Acceleration, Basic Skills in Context, Literacy, Making Visible, Math, Multimedia, Reading, Using Institutional Research, Video Evidence, Writing |
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July 6, 2009
This video shows several students solving the same pre-algebra think aloud. The Cerritos College FIN Team is looking for statements revealing student metacognitive self-regulation (see elements and example statements below). Metacognitive Self-Regulation Elements Problem Analysis (“This problem is asking ….”) Strategy selection based on problem requirements (“I need to make a table.”) Intentional use of [...]
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Making Visible, Math, Metacognition, Student Voice, Think Alouds, Video Evidence |
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May 5, 2009
Four students taking precollegiate math classes give their theories about why soooo many students HATE math. This is a short excerpt from a series of student interviews at Los Medanos College posted on YouTube.
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Math, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Uncategorized |
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April 7, 2009
Here’s a student sharing his experience as a learner in pre-algebra.
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Math, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence |
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March 21, 2009
Announcement! Lesson study accomplished (but we still have to survey the information gathered, so not completely accomplished but you get what I mean). Our lesson study was organized as a series of three classes with each class serving to build skills and synthesize ideas between the reading and statistical information in regards to social class. [...]
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Developing Questions, Integrative Learning, Learning Communities, Literacy, Math, Reading, Writing |
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March 11, 2009
Plan: Co-teach a lesson that combines math and English concepts. Myra Snell and I cooked up a project that would preview our math/English collaboration for next semester. We wanted to test our theories that math can be relevant /FUN and that math can inform themes of racial and class identity covered in my Puente cohort [...]
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Identity, Integrative Learning, Math, Student Confidence |
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February 28, 2009
Summary of Inquiry The Cerritos College inquiry project will combine two complementary collaborations to develop a deeper understanding about how developmental learners acquire the academic habits of mind needed to succeed in college. Too often, students at risk remain on the margins of the academic community and this project will investigate ways of moving them [...]
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Fear, Identity, Learning to Learn, Math, Metacognition, Pre/Post, Revised Inquiry Plans, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Surveys, Writing |
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February 27, 2009
SUMMARY In collaboration wit h the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this project aims to address the low persistence and success rates within developmental Math across the state. Instead of the standard three- to four-semester developmental path toward Calculus, this project will create an open-entry, one-semester accelerated course that prepares students for transfer-level [...]
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Identity, Literacy, Math, Student Confidence, Student Interviews |
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