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=**Marian University EDT 678 **=

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**Standard 1** **Teachers know the subjects they are teaching. ** The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines she or he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils


 * Evidence 1: ** Advanced Placement Statistics class wiki http://nienhaua.wikispaces.com/


 * Rationale 1: ** This wiki was started for an assignment for EDT 672, Teaching and Learning On-Line. The wiki started out as a resource for my AP Statistics summer assignment. The students’ summer assignment is to learn chapter one of the textbook. They are expected to read the chapter and complete the assignments prior to the first day of school. Previously these assignments were given to the students as they left school in the spring and they were left on their own to complete them. I created the wiki for students to access during the summer as a resource. It provides them the answers to the assignments as well as other information. Since the wiki was created, it has become a resource for the whole year. Now all of the solutions for all of the assignments for the course are available on the wiki. This is important because the answers in the book are not comprehensive and don’t include the detail that is expected in an AP answer. Students said they find the wiki very helpful. They are able to check their answers or learn from the answers if they are struggling.

Creating this wiki was important for my development as a teacher for many reasons. This was my first year teaching this class so it made me work through all of the assigned problems and create solutions with the expectations of an AP class. Having the wiki and the solutions cut back the amount of time that was being used up in class for going over the solutions to the homework. Now we spend time with just specific homework questions and higher level concept type questions instead of factual or logistical type questions.

// 1.K. 2. The teacher understands how students’ conceptual frameworks and their misconceptions for an area of knowledge can influence their learning. //
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Having students read the book on their own during the summer was difficult to make sure they mastered the material the way they were expected to. Providing the solutions online for the not only the summer assignment but the whole year gives the students the opportunity to check their understanding or misunderstandings of concepts that they have read in the textbook or been taught in the classroom.

// 1.S.3. The teacher can evaluate teaching resources and curriculum materials for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness in representing particular ideas and concepts. // I found the solutions provided by the textbook to be incomplete when I was going through the sample problems. Not all of the answers were in the back of the book and the ones that were did not have all of the “work” involved in finding the answer. The expectation on the AP Statistics exam is to communicate your knowledge of the subject. This was not shown in the solutions in the back of the book. One benefit of providing more comprehensive solutions to the students is they understand the expectation of the AP exam better.

// 1.D.4. The teacher is committed to continuous learning and engages in professional discourse about subject matter knowledge and children’s learning of the discipline. // I am gradually adding more and more resources to the wiki site for the students’ reference. When I come across a website or another resource from another AP Stats teacher or the AP Stats listserv that I think may be helpful for the students, I add it to the wiki.