Questions and Answers

As a results of taking this class lots of questions have been raised. The main question I have is how do we go about finding the time to teach using different techniques then we were taught. One of the reasons we were taught math the way we were had a lot to do with time. Teachers are given a whole list of standards they have to meet and not nearly enough time to teach everything they need to. When you throw in new teaching techniques it does not seem like there would be enough time to teach your students that way even though it is a better way. You want to give your students the best possible education they can get and that means creating a deeper understanding of math for your students. Instead of just showing students formulas and how to plug in numbers you want students to have a deep understanding of why math processes work the way they do. It will be interesting to see how teachers teach this way for deeper understanding and still have to to fit in all the standards they are supposed to teach. My question is how do we as upcoming teachers do this in our classrooms?