Dear TIME 2000 Students,

We hope you and your loved ones are all well.  We know that many of you have suffered a great deal during this pandemic that hit us in the beginning of March 2020.  Due to that reason, we did not want to give you a very demanding portfolio assignment, but rather substitute it with a document you can write and keep forever that records this historic time in your life.  Clearly, among other things, this abrupt change to online instruction and learning has affected both your professors and you.  Your professors have had to quickly adapt to online platforms they might have been totally unfamiliar with before that might not have even been aligned with their original course objectives.  You, as students, have had to adapt to the many different platforms used by your different professors and try to incorporate learning strategies you have never used before.

The main purpose of this “portfolio” is for you to document how your developing knowledge and beliefs about mathematics, students, and teaching and learning and your goals for instruction have been influenced by this most unusual year in TIME 2000.  You will do this by answering the assigned questions to the best of your ability. 

The assignment with grading rubric is posted on the TIME 2000 Google Classroom page.  All work should be uploaded to Classroom.  The due date is June 12, 2020.

 We hope that writing this will be a positive reflective experience for you and we eagerly look forward to reading what you have to say.

Alice F. Artzt
Professor of Mathematics Education
Co-Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Secondary Mathematics Education
Director of TIME 2000: A Math Teaching Scholarship Program
Department of Secondary Education and Youth Services
Powdermaker Hall, Room 150E
Queens College of the City University of New York
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11367-1597
Office phone: 718.997.5169
Office fax: 718.997.5154