New Insights

Over the past few weeks we have spent some time going over our area and perimeter with scale factors worksheet and I have seen a completely different style of teaching that I personally haven't seen or experienced first hand. Instead of running to our rescue right as we have a question or perhaps start to veer off the path to the correct answer, Dr. Reins lets us stray from the correct path and allows us to struggle to work our way back to the right path. This is something that for some students may be discouraging, however it has helped me tremendously. I have never been scared to ask questions however through this new way of teaching, it has allowed me to first think about the question, where I need to go and then from there I begin to work backwards almost to try to fit the two pieces together. For the students who get frustrated or discouraged easily, a small hint every once in a while may help build their confidence and slowly from there give them less and less help. Overall, I have found that although this method of teaching is quite difficult to get used to at the beginning, the rewards at the end are completely worth it.