The document discusses a midterm exam taken in an education methods course in the spring of 2015. The course integrated mathematical concepts and nontraditional teaching methods to benefit all students. It taught that the best way to instruct students is to build upon their concrete knowledge to develop symbolic understanding. The course also covered the primacy-recency effect and the importance of utilizing the beginning and end of lessons as critical learning periods, such as having students use social language to understand concepts before introducing mathematical terms. The exam responses demonstrate the applicant integrated these ideas.
The document discusses a midterm exam taken in an education methods course in the spring of 2015. The course integrated mathematical concepts and nontraditional teaching methods to benefit all students. It taught that the best way to instruct students is to build upon their concrete knowledge to develop symbolic understanding. The course also covered the primacy-recency effect and the importance of utilizing the beginning and end of lessons as critical learning periods, such as having students use social language to understand concepts before introducing mathematical terms. The exam responses demonstrate the applicant integrated these ideas.
The document discusses a midterm exam taken in an education methods course in the spring of 2015. The course integrated mathematical concepts and nontraditional teaching methods to benefit all students. It taught that the best way to instruct students is to build upon their concrete knowledge to develop symbolic understanding. The course also covered the primacy-recency effect and the importance of utilizing the beginning and end of lessons as critical learning periods, such as having students use social language to understand concepts before introducing mathematical terms. The exam responses demonstrate the applicant integrated these ideas.
The following artifact is the copy of Midterm Exam I took in SEDC 713 Methods 1 in the Spring 2015 Semester. At the end of the copy of the Midterm Exam is a screenshot I took of my BlackBoard page showing the grade of my Midterm. The course itself integrated mathematical concepts and nontraditional ways of teaching these concepts so that all students would be benefitted. The best way to teach to all students is to work with the knowledge they have, which is concrete knowledge, and build up to the symbolic knowledge. The course also revealed to me the best time to teach a new concept to students, referring to the Primacy-Recency Effect. Its discussed that the beginning and the end of the lesson are crucial learning periods. Therefore, it is essential to utilize the closure period by having students make sense of what they learned through social language and build up to mathematical language. My exam responses show that I have integrated these ideas into my own thinking.