First, gather up your entries from this session and reread them, making any additional comments on or edits to your original comments. Highlight the questions that were most provocative or productive for you in thinking about problem solving. Are your answers to these complete? Would you write more now? If so, go for it. Finally, read the questions below and answer one in light of the students and content you teach.

• Small changes can have big differences. What one change in your classroom could you make to improve your students' problem-solving skills? Could you make that change the next time you walk into your classroom, say tomorrow? Why or why not?
• Imagine a video team was to arrive tomorrow to film your class as a study of problem solving in action. What would it show? What would you be proud of? What might you want to change?
• Where would you like to be as a teacher with respect to problem solving in a year? How might you get there? How will you know you've arrived?

• Use pen and paper.
• Use a word processor.
• Use the form below.

Your work will be displayed in a printer-friendly format to enable you to print.

Thanks for writing in your journal. Please print out these last entries and add them to those for Journals 1-4.

  In the next session, we will address the Reasoning and Proof Standard