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Math ELITEs
Maria AndersenMuskegon Community College
Give students plenty of opportunity
to learn from each other
Step 1: Find classrooms with the most whiteboards,
and take them over.
Step 1.5: Make friends with your
custodial staff. They can tell you when there are
“orphaned” whiteboards sitting in storage.
(brownies?)
travelers
Step 2: Decide, with the help
of your colleagues, how to optimally redesign these
classroom spaces.
Math ELITEs
http://teachingcollegemath.com/?p=2148
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Step 3: Submit a carefully supported
budget request. Justify everything you need.
Include pictures (old and new).
Alternate Step 3: Begin scouring campus for
abandoned tables and unused technology that you can move to YOUR
room.
Step 4: Carefully (and nicely) go to
pitch your plan to every influencer in the budget process. Show them the
pictures. Be impassioned.
Step 5: If none of this works, make
sure to point out just how little your department has
asked for in the past. Active learning requires
different classroom spaces. Traditional classrooms
FORCE lecturing.
Eventually …A miracle occurs!
Ta da!