math elites

Math ELITEs

Maria AndersenMuskegon Community College

Give students plenty of opportunity

to learn from each other

Step 1: Find classrooms with the most whiteboards,

and take them over.

Step 1.5: Make friends with your

custodial staff. They can tell you when there are

“orphaned” whiteboards sitting in storage.

(brownies?)

travelers

Step 2: Decide, with the help

of your colleagues, how to optimally redesign these

classroom spaces.

Math ELITEs

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Step 3: Submit a carefully supported

budget request. Justify everything you need.

Include pictures (old and new).

Alternate Step 3: Begin scouring campus for

abandoned tables and unused technology that you can move to YOUR

room.

Step 4: Carefully (and nicely) go to

pitch your plan to every influencer in the budget process. Show them the

pictures. Be impassioned.

Step 5: If none of this works, make

sure to point out just how little your department has

asked for in the past. Active learning requires

different classroom spaces. Traditional classrooms

FORCE lecturing.

Eventually …A miracle occurs!

Ta da!