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Running head: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NOTEBOOK 1 Professional Development Notebook Professor Martinez MAE 4360 Farah Sattar 03/27/2022 Miami Dade College

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NOTEBOOK 2 Face-to-Face Mathematics Professional Development Activity/First Webinar: Date : September 1, 2022 Activity : “Math is Everywhere: A Cross-Curricular Road Map”. The presenter goes through the various content areas and subjects taught to a child in school and incorporates the elements of mathematics teaching involved in those subjects. Presentation Title : “Math is Everywhere: A Cross-Curricular Road Map” Location : Hand2Mind Presenter : Brittany Goerig Presentation link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGh3pt9M8jk Description : In this presentation, Brittany Goerig highlights the importance of cross- curricular teaching inside the classroom and how integrating mathematics in other subject areas in school is important in impacting student learning in mathematics. This webinar made us realize how math can be used with other subjects also. Students can learn a lot from multiple concepts used once they have understood the ability of cross curricular map. It helps students increase their knowledge and engagement skills also. This surely helps them make a connection between mathematics and other subjects. Reflection : As educators we think we only have to teach math and with those comes numbers and once we know what the lesson is accepting from us we go on with the class. But this concept of an educator is wrong. We need to think outside the box. we may think teaching math is all about explaining the concepts highlighted in a textbook with no direct correlation to real-world situations and if only we knew that this isn’t the right way to go about it. We have to keep in mind that our basics will always be useful so its always important to understand what we

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NOTEBOOK 3 learn from the lower classes as we go in the upper ones. For example, We can take the idea of symmetry we learned around 4 th grade and draw lines of symmetry onto different shapes we are familiar with to make those connections as we would in art class when we look at a piece, a building, or maybe even a landscape. We shouldn’t be jumping right into numerical values right away. Instead, we should try and comprehend what the problem is asking for. I know now as a prospective math teacher that I can also use this technique of curriculum integration to keep my students engaged and spark their interests when learning mathematics. Mathematics Webinar/Second Webinar: Date : February 15, 2022 Activity : “Math Mindsets Matter: Developing Problem Solvers, not Problem Performers” Presentation Title : “Math Mindsets Matter: Developing Problem Solvers, not Problem Performers” Location : Hand2Mind Presenter : Skip Fennell & Kristin Gauldin Description : In this presentation, Dr. Skip Fennell and Kristin Gauldin go over the idea of problem-solving strategies inside the mathematics classroom. Today’s mathematics education should focus more on problem-solving than problem-performing so instead of jumping right onto operations with the numbers associated in a math problem, it is important to focus on what the problem is asking for and making connections in literacy for long-term understanding. Reflection: This presentation was an eye-opener for me and future math teachers as well to be able to distinguish the difference between having a problem solver and having a problem performer inside a mathematics classroom. When we look at problem performers inside the

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