What should preservice teachers learn in a college geometry course, and how should they learn it? To change the lack of national consensus on how to answer these two questions, an online community of faculty who teach or do research on college geometry courses taken by secondary teachers (GeT courses) was formed in the Summer of 2018, under the coordination of Pat Herbst and Amanda Brown from the University of Michigan GRIP lab (https://www.gripumich.org/). A group of GeT instructors worked for over two years toward the goal of identifying a list of essential student learning outcomes (SLOs) for inclusion in GeT courses – where essential means the identification of content knowledge that all prospective secondary geometry teachers should have the opportunity to learn. The public draft of the set of Student Learning Outcomes is available at https://getapencil.org/student-learning-objectives/. My presentation will discuss some of the SLOs, how I incorporated them in my own teaching of the GeT course at Adrian College, and how my participation in the GeT: A Pencil community influenced and enriched my teaching.
A Student Learning Outcomes Perspective on the College Geometry Course for Secondary Teachers
A Student Learning Outcomes Perspective on the College Geometry Course for Secondary Teachers