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This course delves into the mathematics elementary teachers need to know, focusing on autonomous learning skills and metacognitive reflection to enhance teaching effectiveness. Explore the importance of understanding mathematics, autonomous learning, and reflective thinking. Reflect on criteria for reflective thinking as a rigorous way of processing experiences and ideas. Foster metacognitive reflection for continuous personal and intellectual growth. Dive into the essentials of teaching mathematics according to educational standards.
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CI 319: Course Philosophy Mara Alagic
How much mathematics does an elementary teacher need to know? • Mathematics Knowledge • Autonomous Learning Skills • Metacognitive Reflection
How much mathematics does an elementary teacher need to know? • Mathematics Knowledge • Autonomous Learning Skills • Metacognitive Reflection
How much mathematics does an elementary teacher need to know? • Reading mathematics • Understanding Mathematics • Teaching mathematics • Standards: Process & Content
How much mathematics does an elementary teacher need to know? • Mathematics Knowledge • Autonomous Learning Skills • Metacognitive Reflection
What is Autonomous Learning? “an active, constructive process whereby learners set goals for their learning and then attempt to monitor, regulate, and control their cognition, motivation, and behavior, guided and constrained by their goals and the contextual features in the environment”(Wolters, Pintrich & Karabenick, 2003)
How much mathematics does an elementary teacher need to know? • Mathematics Knowledge • Autonomous Learning Skills • Metacognitive Reflection
Reflective Thinking: Four Criteria (Rodgers 2002, p.845) • Reflection as a meaning making process • Reflection as a rigorous way of thinking • Reflection in Community • Reflection as a set of attitudes
Criterion One: Reflection as a meaning making process “Reflection is a meaning making process that moves a learner from one experience to the next with deeper understanding of its relationships with and connections to other experiences and ideas. It is the thread that makes continuity of learning possible, and ensures the progress of the individual and ultimately, society. It is a means to essentially moral ends. “
Criterion Two: Reflection as a rigorous way of thinking “Reflection as a systematic, rigorous, disciplined way of thinking, with its roots in scientific inquiry” (from the data of the experience to formulating a theory to testing that theory).
Criterion Three: Reflection in Community “Reflection needs to happen in community, in interaction with others.” “The experience needs to be formulated in order to be communicated.” (Dewey)
Criterion Four: Reflection as a set of attitudes • “Reflection requires attitudes that value the personal and intellectual growth of oneself and others.” • Whole-heartedness, directness, open-mindedness, readiness, …
Metacognitive Reflection • Learning about our own learning • What Does it Mean to Foster Metacognitive Reflection?