study plan - spring 2008

• The Big Shebang (i.e. really important documentations of my work that are due this semester)
• Progress Review 2
• Pre-student teaching portfolio
  

• Broader Subject Area Theory
• An exploration of "Social Justice Mathematics"
• product: Essay
• resources:
• Rethinking Mathematics by Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson
  
• articles from Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal (http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/PErnest/)
• www.radicalmath.org
• Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights by Bob Moses
• http://tubmanfreeschool.wikispaces.com/Mathwalk
  
• http://www.populareconomics.org/About.html
• www.tolerance.org
• interview with Julian Tresize?
• Components addressed: Mathematic Instruction and Comprehension, Culture and Society
• Ethnomathematics
• product: Essay
• Resources
• "Ethnomathematics challenging eurocentrism in mathematics education" article (see bib)
  
• www.ethnomath.org
• http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/multmath.html
• http://www.rpi.edu/%7Eeglash/isgem.dir/links.htm
• http://www.science.org.au/nova/073/073fur.htm
• http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Ethnomathematics (bibliography)
• Components addressed: Mathematics instruction and comprehension, History and Cultural Geography
• Theory of Teaching Social Studies
• product:essay
• Resources:
• People's History by Zinn
• Lie's My Teacher Told Me
• Thornton, S. J. (2005). Teaching social studies that matters : Curriculum for active learning
• http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/index.html
• http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp
• Components addressed: History and Cultural Geography, Culture and Social Studies
• Early Adolescent Learning and Development
• Product: essay
• Resources: ?
• Components addressed: Early Adolescent Learning and Development
• Specific Content Area Studies
• Numbers and Operations
• Product:lesson plan
• Assessment
  
• self reflection
• Components Addressed:Numbers and Operations
  
• Algebra and Functions
• Product:lesson plan
• Assessment
  
• self reflection
• Components Addressed: Algebra and Functions
• Geometry and Measurements/History and Cultural Geography
• Product: integrated lesson plan
• assessment
• self reflection
• Resources:
• www.ethnomath.org
• http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/multmath.html
• http://www.rpi.edu/%7Eeglash/isgem.dir/links.htm
• http://www.science.org.au/nova/073/073fur.htm
• Components addressed: Geometry and Measurements, History and Cultural Geography
• Data Analysis, Stastics, and Probability/Culture and Society
• Product: integrated Lesson plan
• assessment
• self reflection
  
• possible subjects: racial profiling, prison growth, community surveys
• Resources:
• Rethinking Mathematics by Gutstein
• www.radicalmath.org
• www.tolerance.org
• Components addressed: Data Analysis, Stastics, and Probability, Culture and Society

• Self-reflection/blogging
• website: http://teachkristen.blogspot.com
• I plan to continue to blog in my online journal. I will blog regarding my experiences in the Albany Free School and the Harriet Tubman Free School, especially regarding experiences related to math and social studies. I will blog about my learnings at the Sowing Seeds workshopthe radical mathematics conference. Blogging was a new experience for me last semester. I found that I started out by mainly putting academic prewrites, outlines and essays on it. However, as time went on I shifted to using it more as a traditional journal would be used to document and process events that I had experienced, and to explore my feelings on being a teacher. Blogs have unique benefits, such as being able to be read from far away, to post pictures and links, and one particular benefit I especially enjoy is not getting hand cramps from holding a pencil for to long. The writing is also then in an easily saved and reproducible format.
• Goal: to blog at least once a month