As an effective teacher, I believe that students have different learning styles and needs based on their diverse backgrounds. The population demographics of our country are changing. By 2050, the growth rate of population of Hispanics and Asian Americans will be more than white population. Students are highly depending on technology tools and gadgets. At the beginning of each semester I ask all my students to take a 56 question quiz online at http://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html to identify students ' multiple intelligence. I instruct the students to be as realistic as possible on the quiz. The results will be consolidated and analyzed in planning my teaching style and strategies for a class. To meet the needs of spatial learners I include cross word puzzles and surveys in my teaching. In my
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The curriculum I chose is designed to fulfill both the societal and learners ' needs. The evolution of math is based on our social and economic needs of various cultures. As quoted by Kronecker "God made the integers; all else is the work of man," the history of real numbers began with counting numbers. Since then, based on the need, mathematicians around the world created negative, rational, irrational, and complex numbers. Students at high school choose various course structures based on their college plans. The history of Math and science reveal us that the concepts that we learnt few years back are becoming outdated. We have seen a paradigm shift in students learning styles. Emphasis is more on the mathematical processes than on just content by itself. The curriculum design is not subject centered alone any more. This curriculum in my opinion is a Broad Fields design integrating the applications of physics, chemistry, economics, and
The curriculum I chose is designed to fulfill both the societal and learners ' needs. The evolution of math is based on our social and economic needs of various cultures. As quoted by Kronecker "God made the integers; all else is the work of man," the history of real numbers began with counting numbers. Since then, based on the need, mathematicians around the world created negative, rational, irrational, and complex numbers. Students at high school choose various course structures based on their college plans. The history of Math and science reveal us that the concepts that we learnt few years back are becoming outdated. We have seen a paradigm shift in students learning styles. Emphasis is more on the mathematical processes than on just content by itself. The curriculum design is not subject centered alone any more. This curriculum in my opinion is a Broad Fields design integrating the applications of physics, chemistry, economics, and