Standard 1: Content Knowledge: The teacher understands the central concepts, methods of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) and creates learning experiences that make the content meaningful to all students.

Date: Spring 2003
Artifact: Rational Expressions Unit
Description: During my student teaching experience, I created a nine day lesson plan that focused on manipulating rational equations. Included in the plan is an example of a student quiz and rubric.

Date: Spring 2002
Artifact: Functions Untis
Description: During my second Curriculum and Instruction class, one other classmate and I put together a unit plan and developed two specific lessons related to functions. My partners lesson focused on translations with functions, while my lesson focused on what functions look visually with the aid of a decoder ring metaphor.

Date: October 21, 2001
Artifact: Demo Lesson Plan with homework
Description: During my first Curriculum and Instruction class, two other classmates and I put together a demo lesson and accompanying homework which we then presented to our class. Our lesson plan focused on the concepts of slope and the equation of a line, building their meaning from data collected in class.

Date: August 1999 through June 2003
Artifact: Completed Course Work
Description: While attending the University of Illinois, I completed the required course work to earn my Bachelors Degree in Mathematics. In addition, MATH 302 exposed me to topics in geometry from both a visual and equation-centered view, perspectives that will be useful while teaching to unique students in the future.


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