Natasha Malone _EDUC5313_ Blogs

  Authentic/Authentic Instruction and Assessment The nature of Authentic Intellectual Work encompasses of the unique application of skills and knowledge that allows individuals to accomplish complex work that is socially or personally meaningful to individuals. Authentic Intellectual Work goes beyond the routine use of facts and procedures learned in a traditional learning environment.    An example of Authentic Intellectual Work can be the unique business skills needed for an entrepreneur to start a new business.    Authentic Intellectual Work goes beyond the traditional approaches of instruction and assessment.     The setting of traditional instruction in schools involve the routine use of facts and procedures that does not allow students to achieve complex accomplishment as in authentic intellectual work.    For instance, a student in school will learn the importance of recycling under traditional instructions with no high-level lear...

My name is Natasha Malone. I am from and live in the British Virgin Islands. I have been teaching mathematics at Elmore Stoutt High School for 18 years.   Elmore Stoutt High School is a secondary public school from grades 7 to 12 located in the British Virgin Islands.   The British Virgin Islands currently uses a spiral approach curriculum in mathematics.   I was the Head of the Mathematics Department at Elmore Stoutt High School from grades 10 to 12 from 2018 – 2022 and head of the same department from grades 7 to 12 from 2022 to 2023.   My current professional goal is to continue to assist the British Virgin Islands Ministry of Education to restructure the Mathematics Curriculum that will be similar to the Common Core State Standard. This restructure of the curriculum will allow students to easily transfer from British Virgin Islands to United States schools. My future professional goal is to successfully complete my Master in Curriculum and Instructions – Math...