New Insights and Their Implications

I thought the first few weeks of class were very informational. In all of my other classes we have been expected to know a lot about the state and national standards and how they work, but we have never really gone over them as a class. I thought that reading about the NCTM standards outside of class and having class discussions were very helpful to learn more about how standards work. It was also interesting to look at the comparisons of the tests that were done internationally and to see where exactly the United States stands compared to other countries. I would have never guessed that our educational teachers scaled as low as they did compared to other countries. Learning about this information gave me a different view of how teachers should be teaching and how I want to teach in the future.