New Insights and Their Implications

Over the past few weeks I have learned a lot about new and improved ways to plan and teach math. When we began talking about national and state standards I was like here we go again. Having completed lesson plans for many classes in which we had to list the standards we were covering I thought I had a good idea of what they all consisted of. But I was wrong. Over the past few class periods I have started looking at standards and the websites we have been talking about much more closely. The one area that really left an impression on me happened today in class actually. While we were looking at the content standards for math I was very impressed with what the teacher resources sections all entailed. Never looking at that before I just figured it was a list of other websites we could explore if we were confused with the standards. Little did I know it consisted of lesson ideas that could really help students. With tons of standards to cover it can be difficult developing lessons. Now knowing there are ideas directly related to the content standards I feel much more confident in developing lessons if I ever get stuck and am not sure what activity I should engage the students in. This could be very helpful in the future and I look forward to learning much more in class.