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Seminar 2 of the Defense Civilian Emerging Leader Program (DCELP). The topic for Seminar 2 is Express Self. Participants must craft and present a five-minute talk. Here is my practice session in front of peers today. #DCELP #instructionaldesign #publicspeaking

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Have you ever struggled with something? I mean, you really struggle with it. You tried everything you knew to do since to to succeed. Everything you knew to try failed. You gave it your best effort, and in spite of your best effort, you just couldn't get it. Have you ever been there? Well, that was me, and my opponent was Algebra 1. I tried everything. I knew every routine that we was going over in class that the instructor gave for how to solve those word problems, I did it. I applied the theory or the concept even when I didn't know what it meant. That was my first problem. I didn't know what it meant. I spent hours on homework using what I later learned were faulty algorithms to work word problems. I forced solutions. That I couldn't explain. Are reverse engineered solutions because you remember the odd number problems how the answer in the back of the book, right? So I went and found the answer and then I reverse engineered the solution having no depth of understanding. So in the end it did me no good because I still lacked understanding. Of the logic that was needed to solve the problem. Everything was done through rote memorization with no understanding, using faulty algorithms. My homework was often covered in red marks. For correction and my test were the same. I spent an hour after dismissal working on those tests. And despite my best effort, despite the teacher give me an hour longer to work, I still didn't pass the test. I tried my best. It didn't make sense. It didn't make sense. I had been selected to a college preparatory middle school. I have been voted most likely to succeed in fifth grade. For goodness sakes, why am I struggling with math? My parents were supportive and told me that I could do anything I put my mind to. It just didn't make sense to me why I was failing. The struggle didn't make sense. I believe I could learn. I didn't believe that it wasn't possible for me to learn math. It's just that my peers had some knowledge, some secret knowledge that they were keeping from me on how to solve these math word problems. I just needed to know what they knew. Well, the end of the story is I made it through algebra one. I passed just barely. My failing grade, though in the middle of the semester did keep me from making the basketball team. Well, I just played at home as usual. I made it through algebra One. I passed, but that struggle with math stayed in the back of my mind. Fast forward 20 years, I'm a doctoral student. My major is instructional design and development. I'm learning how to create training and instruction where people can learn easily, to make learning easy and light. To structure instruction according to the characteristics of the learner, where they are, they're baseline. This was what I was learning to do and being trained to do as an instructional designer. So it got down to time for me to write my dissertation. What was going to be my topic? I was interested in a lot of things, but you know what? Six grade came back into my mind. How could I help other students who struggled in math do better? Not struggling math. To get through algebra one, what could I do? I was being trained as an instructional designer. I would use my talent of creating instruction to create a module that will help people learn how to think about math problems. That was it, because I learned that it was a real problem in society. 30% of students test into developmental math when they're going to college. That means they can't take college level math. They have to take developmental math to prepare them, and then past developmental math to get into college level math. The problem is 60% of those students failed developmental math on the first attempt, delaying their progress through college. They have to have college level math to get a degree. So my struggle inspired my dissertation topic. I want to encourage other students to have a growth mindset and to know that they can pass math. So that's my and so my dissertation topic is to create a module that will teach students how to think about math. I don't want the knowledge to be secret to them. I don't want anyone to feel that they don't have what the tools that they need to learn to do mathematics. I want to open the doors and provide that knowledge on how to think about math so others don't have to struggle.

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