First, gather your entries from Journals 1-4 and reread them, editing your original comments as desired. Highlight the questions that were most provocative or productive for you in thinking about representation. What would you like to add to what you have written? Would you write more now? If so, go for it.

Here are questions for your final journal.

• We have now studied the communication, problem-solving, reasoning and proof, and representation process standards. How are these standards connected? Why is representation an important element of effective problem solving?
• Small changes can have big differences. What one change in your classroom could you make to improve your students' facility with a variety of representations? Could you make that change the next time you walk into your classroom, say, tomorrow? Why or why not?
• Imagine that a video team was to arrive tomorrow to tape your class as a study of students using representations in action. What would the video show? What would you be proud of? What might you want to change?
• A year from now, where would you like to be as a teacher with respect to having students using representations? How might you get there? How will you know when you're there?

• 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.

Congratulations -- you've completed this session! If you are the type who is motivated by rewards, give yourself an appropriate one. You've just completed a substantial amount of work, and you deserve credit.

  In the next session, we address the Connections Standard