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 communication. Would you like to add to your what you have written? If so, go for it.

Here are some new questions for your final journal.

• In your classroom, what do you find is most important about communication? How does it affect student achievement? How does it affect the classroom climate?
• Small changes can make big differences. What one change in your classroom could you make to improve each of your students' ability to communicate for the purpose of learning mathematics? How can you begin implementing this change? How would you continue to implement the change? How would you communicate about the change to your students?
• Imagine that a video team was to arrive tomorrow to film your class as a study of communication in action. What would the video show? What would you be proud of? What might you want to change?

• 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 this last entry and add it to those for Journals 1-4.

  In the next session, we will address the Problem Solving Standard.