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- 1. Stephen A. Wilson Empowering students to take responsibility for their own education!
- 2. I Say There is no greater reward than to hear a student who has been having difficulties say “Oh, now I get it”.
- 3. Education MS Instructional Design Certification Instructional Design MA Math Education BS Computer Science
- 4. Teaching Experience Instructed at Community Colleges from 2006 to Present, Specializing in Math and Professional development courses.
- 5. Influences on My Teaching Philosophy (1) Annual Bracey Report (2) Solution Step Discipline (3) Adult Education Experience
- 6. Annual Bracey Report Gerald Watkins Bracey (August 12, 1940 – October 20, 2009 As author, he analyzed current trends in education, often in opposition to prevailing educational policies of the day.
- 7. Annual Bracey Report According to Bracey, standardized tests measure only a small amount of what makes education meaningful.
- 8. Annual Bracey Report Two of the nearly ten books published by Bracey are (1)Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality (2009) This book is about misconceptions of education and testing in America
- 9. Annual Bracey Report (2) Bail Me Out!: Handling Difficult Data and Tough Questions About Public Schools (2000) Bracey proves with data that the claims on low performance of public schools are only half-truths.
- 10. Solution Step Discipline Brian A. Alenskis, Professor at Purdue University published a paper entitled Solving Problem- Solving Problems: Solution Step Discipline
- 11. Solution Step Discipline Many math and science instructors acknowledge that steps leading to answers are more instructive than the answers themselves. This accounts for instructors requesting that students “show all your work.”
- 12. Solution Step Discipline Professor Brian Alenskis developed a discipline for this crucial concept termed Solution Step Discipline (SSD)
- 13. Solution Step Discipline This discipline instructs students on principles needed to document an understandable logical flow of mathematical operations.
- 14. Adult Education Experiences Adult learners can have different agendas than traditional younger college students.
- 15. Adult Education Experiences Instructors need to be aware of these agendas to effectively engage and instruct adult learners.
- 16. Adult Education Experiences Traditional Younger Student Adult Students Rely on others to decide what is important to be learned. Decide for themselves what is important to be learned. Accept the information being presented at face value. Need to validate the information based on their beliefs and experience
- 17. Adult Education Experiences Traditional Student Adult Students Expect learning to be useful long-term Expect learning to be immediately useful. Little ability to serve as knowledgeable resource to class Significant ability to serve as a knowledgeable resource to class.
- 18. Adult Education Experiences Experience tells me that time is well spent getting buy-in from adult learners.
- 19. References Alenskis, B. A. (2004). American Society for Engineering Education: Papers pres. at the annual meeting, 2004
- 20. References Bracey, Gerald (2009) Wikipedia contributors. (2009). Gerald Bracey. Retrieved, December 11, 2018, from https://wikipedia.org/