Class Reflection

This class has been nothing if not interesting for me. I do not have a day where I do not worry about going to class, nor a day where I leave feeling accomplished and confident about what I was presented. I have been pushed harder and challenged further in this class than any other class I have taken during my time here at USD and most surely have a better appreciation for the frustration I know my future students will be feeling when I am teaching them in the future. Also, I have never been introduced to the idea of the common core standards before this class, and found it extremely interesting as tool to take with me in my future as a teacher. However the most important thing that I will take from this class is all the various materials we were introduced to in regards to better teaching math with manipulatives. This was not a way that I was traditionally taught math, and therefore was an extremely new concept to me that I will most definitely be using with my students in the future.

New Insights

Watching all the LPUs in class has been very interesting for me to say the least. I was extremely nervous about my own groups LPU before watching the previous groups present, however, now I am feeling much more confident in my group and our ability to teach our chosen subject. I was extremely unsettled about this class in general and even more leery about the LPU's before I was able to watch the others perform theirs and in turn feel more comfortable about my teaching of math in general.