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By Michael W. Galbraith, and Melanie Jones in Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2006): 20-27. Author's abstract: This article suggests that a balance of the art and science of teaching is essential if the learning and teaching process is to be a meaningful and rewarding educational journey. This notion is explored through a dialogue, held over a 3 year period, with a developmental mathematics instructor at a community college who discovered that technique alone was not sufficient to becoming a good instructor. An unusual situation occurred as a result of the dialogue: Discussion of research-based literature on college teaching and personal experiential reflectivity merged and resulted in an organizing framework for understanding the artistic and mechanic elements of effective instruction. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

On YouTube, posted July 2007. Episode 1 of Def Poetry Jam. Mali's poem looks at the role of the teacher. For related work by Taylor Mali, follow the mali tag.

Part of the Passion thread (Faculty Skills and Attributes), this video was included on the poster's own teaching blog and, for him, exemplifies passion.

A project of LaGuardia Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning. Project Quantum Leap (PQL) seeks to develop new lessons and courses that focus on problem-solving and to integrate these into the developmental math curriculum. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned in the Contextualization thread, as an example of a program that allows students to learn within the context of "real world" projects like the environment and climate change.

By Tom Stoppard, published by Samuel French, 1993. This is the worldcat record, which will direct you to other editions and formats, as well as help you to find Arcadia in a library near you.

Mentioned in the context of blending math and English in order to improved contextualization. When the instructor teaches this play in her English class, she has a math instructor join her to discuss fractals and their relevance to math.

Dan Meyer video lecture on TED.com, posted May 2010.

Posted to the thread Instructional Strategies: Contextualization, when looking at the issue of teaching word problems as part of math class.

By Terrie E. Moffitt, Louise Arseneault, Daniel Belsky, Nigel Dickson, Robert J. Hancox, HonaLee Harrington,Renate Houts, Richie Poulton, Brent W. Roberts, Stephen Ross, Malcolm R. Sears, W. Murray Thomson,and Avshalom Caspi in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), 2011, vol 108 (7), pp 2639-2640. Full-text PDF is available from this page.

Contributed to the Faculty Skills and Attributes: Adaptability thread in the context of "how my courses can be flexible and yet teach the skills for success."

By Kelly Gallagher; Richard L. Allington. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers (2009).

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