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**Standard 5**
 * Teachers know how to manage a classroom. **

// The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation. //


 * Evidence:** Grant – Document Camera




 * Rationale:** As a math instructor, my goal is for every student to have an understanding of mathematical concepts and apply them to the real world. The problem solving skills they learn in math can be applied to a variety of situations and be aligned with 21st century skills. By having a document camera in my classroom, every student in my class will benefit. The students will be able to collaborate and have a dialogue about their learning. One way to create an environment in which students are engaged is to create a culture of explanation instead of a culture of the right answer. The students will explore open ended, higher level thinking mathematical tasks while working with a partner or group. They will present their findings to the class using a document camera to describe different ways of solving the same problem. This also helps them prepare for the 21st century by working collaboratively on these problems. With the document camera, students will be able to share their work to the class to express the solution in a variety of ways to broaden mathematical thinking.

This takes some of the responsibility of explaining different thinking from me as the teacher and gives it to the students. It also changes the curriculum from being a single correct answer to a more open-ended multiple approach type of question. Some of these questions have already been developed by the math department at West Allis Central with our work withMarquetteUniversity. I found out on Decemeber 1st that I was awarded my grant. In the next few weeks I will be purchasing a document camera.


 * KSD:**
 * 5.K.2 The teacher understands how social groups function and influence people, and how people influence group.**

Working with a partner or group motivates them to participate because they have someone else depending on them. Students are also more likely to participate since they have someone to help them by giving a possible answer when they are stuck.


 * 5.S.2 The teacher engages students in individual and cooperative learning activities to develop motivation to achieve, by (for example) relating lessons to students’ personal interests, allowing students to have choices in their learning, and leading students to ask questions and pursue problems that are meaningful to them.**

The open-ended, higher level thinking mathematical tasks that the students are being asked to do interest the students since there is a real-world problem solving aspect to them. The students are also given freedom to choose different methods to solve the problems.


 * 5.D.3 The teacher values the role of students in promoting each other’s learning and recognizes the importance of peer relationships in establishing a climate for learning.**

The students will be responsible for teaching each other both in the group setting and by presenting their findings to the class using the document camera.