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Re: ruth parker (was: language!)
Posted:
Aug 20, 2000 1:31 PM
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Ruth,
Some of what you describe sounds familiar. I spent my first two years in
Michigan working with a sixth-grade teacher who was interested in reforming
his practice. He wasn't math phobic, but he was very monolithic in his
teaching and thinking about mathematics. At the same time, he very much
wanted to learn about and try other approaches to teaching. Some of the
results of this research appear in JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION
(1: 269-293, 1998).
The research I was involved with was less "intrusive" (if you'll forgive me
that word), but I'm sure my co-author and I would also have done some things
differently in retrospect; I imagine that the teacher with whom we worked
might also have liked to have seen some things changed.
Are there any things along those lines that you could share with us? I think
those conducting or planning similar projects would benefit greatly.
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> From: Ruth Parker <ruthp@pacificrim.net>
> Reply-To: amte@esunix.emporia.edu
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:39:39 -0700
> To: <amte@esunix.emporia.edu>
> Subject: Re: ruth parker (was: language!)
>
> on 8/18/00 4:19 PM, Vlorbik@aol.com at Vlorbik@aol.com wrote:
>
>> that's about it; i'm pretty much a fascinated non-participant.
>> if i've heard of ms. parker before now, i've forgotten about it.
>
> I can only imagine what you may have heard about me by now. ;-)
>
> <snip>
>> .
>> oh, he(ck), i can't resist:
>>> Instructional practices that align with the NCTM's curriculum standards vary
>>> significantly from the common practice of teaching students correct
>> procedures for >solving problems . . .
>> you can't *invent* this stuff.
>
> Thanks for the chuckle. Read my book, then we should talk more. Kids
> invent amazing things. "Mathematical Power: Lessons from A Classroom"
> (Heinemann '93), is the story of a year I spent in a fifth grade classroom,
> working with a math phobic teacher who was trying to change her math program
> from a traditional textbook approach to one more closely align with the NCTM
> Standards and other mathematics reform documents. I tape recorded, then
> wrote up, conversations I had with Cathy (the teacher) as we planned, and
> also taped classroom discourse while she taught. I wrote it in '92 and
> there are some things Cathy and I would choose to do differently, today, but
> it paints a fairly clear picture of what I think a more powerful mathematics
> classroom can look like. There are issues I would have addressed much more
> carefully had I anticipated the educational/political climate that exists
> today. I think the book could provoke some interesting discussions on this
> listserve.
>
> On the other hand, one could just get plenty of information about me from
> others on the internet. But please, if you do, don't tell my Mother what
> you're hearing! ;-) And, you're welcome.
>
> Ruth Parker
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