4. Teaching Experience
Instructed at Community
Colleges from 2006 to
Present, Specializing in
Math and Professional
development courses.
5. Influences on My
Teaching Philosophy
(1) Annual Bracey Report
(2) Solution Step Discipline
(3) Adult Education Experience
6. Annual Bracey Report
Gerald Watkins Bracey (August 12,
1940 – October 20, 2009
As a policy researcher he
analyzed current trends in
education, often in opposition to
prevailing educational policies of
the day.
7. Annual Bracey Report
According to Bracey,
standardized tests measure
only a small amount of what
makes education meaningful.
8. Annual Bracey Report
Two of the nearly ten books
published by Bracey are
(1)Education Hell: Rhetoric
vs. Reality (2009)
This book is about
misconceptions of education
and testing in America
9. Annual Bracey Report
(2) Bail Me Out!: Handling Difficult
Data and Tough Questions About
Public Schools (2000)
Bracey proves with data that the claims
on low performance of public schools
are only half-truths.
10. Solution Step Discipline
Brian A. Alenskis, Professor at
Purdue University published a
paper entitled Solving Problem-
Solving Problems: Solution Step
Discipline
11. Solution Step Discipline
Many math and science instructors
acknowledge that steps leading to
answers are more instructive than
the answers themselves. This
accounts for instructors requesting
that students “show all your work.”
13. Solution Step Discipline
This discipline instructs students
on principles needed to document
an understandable logical flow of
mathematical operations.
16. Adult Education
Experiences
Traditional
Younger Student
Adult Students
Rely on teachers
to decide what is
important to be
learned.
Decide for themselves
what is
important to be learned.
Accept the
information being
presented at face
value.
Need to validate the
information
based on their beliefs
and experience
17. Adult Education
Experiences
Traditional Student Adult Students
Expect learning to be
useful long-term
Expect learning to be
immediately useful.
Little ability to serve
as knowledgeable
resource to class
Significant ability to
serve as a
knowledgeable
resource to class.
