Questions and Answers

Throughout this class i have definately realized the importance of teaching your students using the "new" method of teaching, but it does not seem that easy from a teachers perspective. So my question would be...How do we as teachers not allow ourselves to fall back into the "old" methods of teaching?
Some of the answers that i can come up with are...
- Think of the positive influence that you are having on your students. I can say that i have had horrible math teachers in my past and i think this is truly why i dislike this subject so much. So if you, as a teacher, think of the positives for your students it should help you not fall back to the old way of teaching.
- Do your preperation in advance so you are not rusing to finish your lesson before class. If you do not have your materials and instruction already planned it is more likely that you are going to fall back to the old method of teaching math.
-Learn to think outside of the box. You as a teacher, need to be improving your teaching everday and if you allow yourself to use the new method of teaching you will be learning something new along with the students everday.
- Always keep in mind that you are not the only one learning this new method of teaching. Those of us that are going to be joining the workforce probably have a few more experiences that are fresh in our minds because we have just graduated and we have just learned this new material. You can always use other teachers as a reference, if you feel that someone else is more knowledgable about this topic, dont be afraid to collaborate and learn from one another.

Overall I think I have learned a lot of information in the first part of this class, I definately do not want to fall back into the old way of teaching math because I am a first hand example of how the old method of teaching math did not work. I have never liked math simply because of how I was taught math.