Performance Standard 1: Professional Knowledge

The teacher demonstrates an understanding of the curriculum, subject content, and the developmental needs of students by providing relevant learning experiences.

Artifact 1 College Project	Artifact 2 Blackboard Announcements	Artifact 3 Formal Teacher Evaluation	Artifact 4 Sample College Paper	Artifact 5 Sample Delta Epsilon Proof

Reflexive Statement:

The use of my college project not only fulfills our school’s objective of interdisciplinary studies while enhancing the student’s awareness of fulfilling mathematical requirements required for future college graduation requirements in their choice of study. At the same time it allows students to explore details of the college of their choice, entrance requirements, available transfer DE/AP credit acceptance and much more. In the past the project has played an importance decision factor for college choice. Being assigned in the fall semester, allows students to really focus on deadlines for entrance and begin the admission process. The project enables me to fulfill my objective of educating the whole student and allow them to see the importance of their current subject in their prospective future goals; hence many focus more seriously on the content. It also adds to assessment variety. A sample of a student’s final graded paper is presented for viewing.

Learning and utilizing methods to write formal mathematical proofs is necessary for students entering higher level mathematics along with proper symbolic notation used in proofs. Once introduced to the formal definition of a limit, students explore performing various delta-epsilon proofs. Attached is an example of a graded paper.

The utilization of posting announcements on Blackboard serves not only as a means of student communication, but also as the objective of acclimating students to a college atmosphere. One site is use for all calculus students, but color coding is implemented to distinguish the different classes. Blue is used for M/W classes, red is used for announcements pertinent to all calculus classes, and green is used for T/TH classes. The same procedure is also implemented for the AMA classes.

Artifact 1: Interdisciplinary College Project