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Maria H. Andersen Math Department Muskegon Community College
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Transcript of UM CCIRF Luncheon
Maria H. AndersenMath DepartmentMuskegon Community College
Why a Community College?(a.k.a. why I didn’t finish my PhD the first time)
Reason #1:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlottel/154443920/
Reason #2:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loritingey/350043329/
Cushy Landing
What philosophies (theories, writers, beliefs) have informed your teaching?
(a.k.a. How do you learn what you were not taught in Grad School)
Illustration by Mat Moore, Muskegon MI
Reflect.
You will learn something from
every change.(as long as you look)
For reading,start here.
Read in your field.
No need to reinvent the wheel.
Read blogs. Write a blog.(it’s becoming a rite of passage for work in the digital space)
Seek Balance
Wow!
What’s stimulating about teaching at a Community College?
What kinds of scholarship am I involved in?
(a.k.a. will your brain eventually become mush from teaching at a CC?)
I am a failure at quitting Grad School.
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Community College Math Instructors: The Search for a KAP Gap in Collegiate Math (only 18 words … I’ll have to try harder to win the dissertation title contest)
I write.
Not because I have to, but because I want to.
Learning FuturistThe LIFT Institute
Research.
Educational research.
Does research about students at institutions like this …
… transfer to students at schools like this?
Propose an intervention.
Verify intervention is well-grounded in research. (i.e. Lit Review)
Perform study about intervention.
Write up results.
Submit for publication.(peer review)
Wait a year.
We can’t afford this pace.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randysonofrobert/2763801867/
A new model for research?
Crowdsourcing.
An example.
28,000CC Math Instructors in the U.S.
Suppose we created a research “pipeline” directly from Universities to the CC instructors that could collect the data.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/225007470
28,000CC Math Instructors in the U.S.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flatfield/137152185/
Publish research teasers in
“radical” formats.
Publish some part of your research
on the open web.
