Monday, November 17, 2008

Questions and answers

One of my concerns for this course and myself is I am worried that I will have a difficult time implementing these consructivist views into my classroom. It seems simple to do as I participate in a constructivist classroom, however I feel it would be extremely difficult to do as the teacher. I do however feel more confident in my ability to teach mathematics than I do about any other subjects. Not to trash other methods courses I have taken, but I have passed those courses and left the room wondering what I learned that will help me as a teacher. Most often the answer to that question is nothing. This mathematics course has not left me feeling that way. My next steps for this class are to take the concepts and more importantly strategies we have learned in class and implement them in my student teaching next semester. I have been placed in a Math room and I am eager to observe my host teacher as well as get going on my own.