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Dear Colleagues, the certification a information and application packet has
good ideas for training topics at each level included with provision for
your own unique requirements. Actually will answer most of your questions
about training for Peer Mentors or Peer Tutors.
I did a survey for NADE over the past 4-5 years re salary,status and
prof.preparation. The data is currently being analyzed at the National
Center for Dev. Educ. Do not know yet just what we will find, but we will
share it asap.
At 12:01 AM 3/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
>There are 5 messages totalling 247 lines in this issue.
>
>Topics of the day:
>
> 1. Why I use CL responses - Garyh Probst comments
> 2. midterm report system
> 3. Structuring the Learning Experience
> 4. Salary Database?
> 5. Traditional vs. reform math
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:23:06 -0500
>From: Craig Andres <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Why I use CL responses - Garyh Probst comments
>
>I never said not to teach the other 80%, they will
>still learn. But if you don't meet the needs of
>the 10-15%, then you won't have as competent group
>of mathematicians and scientists in the future.
>It is that group that decides to go into
>Engineering, for instance, because they understand
>they have that math ability. Now some have a
>misplaced sense of accomplishment, and may waste
>their time going into a field that doesn't suit
>them.
>
>It seems to me 80-85% of the students were not
>failing when I was in school, it seems to me most
>did. I was a merely average student in math. Yet
>it was still strong enough of a background for me
>to get my Master's in mathematics. Many of the
>students I see have A's in high school math, yet
>have much more difficulty with math than I did at
>the undergraduate level.
>
>Ask the English teachers to loosen up what they
>teach since not everyone is going to write a
>book. Ask the history teachers to lighten up
>since not everyone is going to be a historian.
>Ask the Gym teachers to take it easy on everyone
>since most won't become professional athletes.
>Tell the music teacher that the students only have
>to play the song once, and then assume they know
>it well enough to play it any time in the future.
>
>The math being taught out there in the public
>schools is not strong enough. Eight years ago we
>started offering Pre-Calculus for students with
>weak backgrounds. Forty students out of 600 would
>take this course. Now using the same placement
>exams, having mostly students from the same high
>schools that we did then, we should be placing 300
>out of the 600 into Pre-Calculus (Instead they
>lowered the standard to be placed into Calculus
>and only 240 end up in Pre-Calc).
>
>I am not against everything about reform. I am
>against removing the elements of memorization and
>practice that are crucial to mastering
>mathematics. Much of reform tends to eliminate
>those.
>
>
>Eric Kaljumagi wrote:
>>
>> > I just wish that the "Math Education" people, who
>> > ultimately make the decisions on how best to teach
>> > pre-college students, would listen to
>> > "Mathematicians" who know what level of math
>> > understanding is necessary for students to succeed
>> > in math, science, and engineering degrees.
>> Roughly 25% of high school juniors go on to earn bachelor's degrees.
>> I'm guessing that at most half of these are in the sciences.
>> Mathematicians (of which I am one) without an educational
>> background only understand the needs of 10 - 15% of
>> students. Why not teach the other 80+% too?
>>
>> Prof. Eric Kaljumagi
>> LAC/Math
>> Mt. San Antonio College
>
>--
>Craig Andres
>Director, Study Abroad and Tutor Program
>Kettering University
>(Continuing the GMI heritage)
>
>email: [log in to unmask]
>Phone: (810)-762-9642
>Fax: (810)-762-9505
>
>
>"We must look forward to the future as that is
>where most of us will be spending the rest of our
>lives." Charles Kettering.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:31:05 -0600
>From: Elizabeth Bergman <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: midterm report system
>
>We encourage our professors to send them out after about four weeks. At
>the learning center, we don't address attendance problems, but the advisors
>and others on campus do. Our warning reports also check off "poor test
>results," "poor or late assignments," and "inadequate daily preparation."
>We respond to these (esp. poor test results) by sending these students
>reminders of our services and sometimes calling them if we know them.
>Students may know their grades are suffering, but others on campus need to
>know as well in order to provide a safety net.
>
>At 01:19 PM 3/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>I work for a small school that collects midterm reports and then distributes
>>the deficiencies to the students and advisors. Usually when the students
>>receive the message, there are only 6-5 weeks left in the semester.
Students
>>can still withdraw from courses and a large number do so at that time. We
>>are trying to put into place an earlier warning based strictly on attendance
>>at the five week mark.
>> My question for other members of this list - is there any
information
>>showing a correlation between early warnings on grades and retention? Are
>>there other warning systems that work differently? better?
>>
>> I also teach General Studies classes and I emphasize that being
aware
>>of your grade is part of your job as a student. If your grades are ok, you
>>probably do not have to change your study habits...however it they are not
>>ok, well "don't expect different results from the same behavior." When I
>>poll my classes, many of the students have no idea of their current standing
>>in any given class.
>>
>>Do other developmental educators see this as a problem for students?
>>
>>Thank you for your time.
>>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:16:26 -0500
>From: "Colgan, Ann" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Structuring the Learning Experience
>
>This is the title of a higher level training on the CRLA certification list.
>Have you conducted this training? What content did you include? What
>issues did you address?
>
>Information would be appreciated. You can reply off the list. Thanks.
>
>Ann Colgan
>English Tutor Coordinator
>Learning Assistance and Resource Center
>West Chester University
>West Chester, PA 19383
>[log in to unmask]
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:05:55 -0500
>From: "Evans, Linda" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Salary Database?
>
>Some time ago, I remember that someone mentioned compiling a database of
>salaries for learning assistance professionals. Once again, I find myself
>in a position to give market data to the powers-that-be at my university and
>I'm grasping for data. I have data from the Oklahoma State University study
>that is conducted annually, so we're using equivalent data from reading
>education (our degrees are in reading). However, I don't have data for
>program directors, and I'm also open for a better equivalency than reading
>education. I called and left a message with the National Center for
>Developmental Education to see if they had any data, but I don't know if
>there's a better source. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:52:09 -0800
>From: Eric Kaljumagi <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Traditional vs. reform math
>
>> I never said not to teach the other 80%, they will still learn.
>
>They never did before. Your median high school graduate
>took two years of "consumer" or general math and never
>touched it again. The majority of American adults couldn't
>calculate the interest on a loan if their lives depended on it.
>A sizeable minority can't calculate a tip.
>
>
>>But if you don't meet the needs of the 10-15%, then you
>>won't have as competent group of mathematicians and scientists
>>in the future.
>
>True enough. If the reform movement takes over, I do wonder
>how we'll serve the needs of graduate schools.
>
>What I found using CPM was that my top students suffered little.
>They seemed to adapt by concentrating on the challenge problems
>others wouldn't touch. As for their overall mathematical skills,.
>perhaps they suffered a slight drop, but it certainly wasn't much, if
>it existed at all. On the other hand, I did find the number of
>students succeeding in class increase dramatically, and over 50% of
>my high school's graduates took Algebra II while in high school.
>Our average SAT scores went up slightly, yet far more students
>took the test. More students also achieved recognition on the
>Golden State Exam. To me, that's success.
>
>My hypothesis:
>
>Traditional math instruction has evolved to become the best and
>most efficient means of educating those destined to become the
>scientists and engineers of the next generation. Traditional
>instruction is simultaneously a frustrating nightmare for most other
>students.
>
>The reform movement of the 1980s and 1990s has attempted to
>bring in other methodologies so as to serve other learning modalities.
>The resultant body of curriculum is not as efficient a means of
>transmission of knowledge, but appeals to a far wider range of students.
>
>Overall, I think that if reform math takes over, we will have a
>significantly
>better educated populace. The challenge is in preventing the elite from
>receiving a weaker education.
>
>
>> The math being taught out there in the public schools is not strong
>enough.
>
>It never is, is it? Seriously, however, this is another issue entirely.
>If you
>surveyed your feeder schools I'd be quite surprised if even 100 of your
>600
>students was in a reform math program. Good teaching requires well
>educated, well trained individuals with dedication to their profession
>and
>a good deal of autonomy to allow for innovation. I've met many such
>high
>school teachers, but there are also many marginal ones. So long as a
>good
>economy provides good paying jobs to new college graduates, a shortage
>of excellent teachers will ensue. We've got to make do with what we've
>got.
>
>Prof. Eric Kaljumagi
>LAC/Math
>Mt. San Antonio College
>
>------------------------------
>
>End of LRNASST Digest - 23 Mar 2000 to 24 Mar 2000 (#2000-78)
>*************************************************************
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