New Insights and Their Implications/ Personal Concerns and Next Steps

New Insights and Their Implications:

I have learned more about the reformed-based teaching that we are learning to teach our future children. I have learned that by simply modeling a problem or helping a child work through their own problems by showing the steps is not a good idea to teach children to understand math concepts. There are two ways for teachers to use standards; the first way is to find a standard and match it with an activity and the second is to find an activity and match it with the appropriate standards. Throughout this class I have learned a lot about using resources, especially finding multiple standards to back up the activity being used. I have really enjoyed reading and learning about the NCTM's goals and expectations and the activities it provides for teachers to use. This affects me as a future teacher because I will now use more resources to find and use in my activities. I will also work on learning the new way of teaching so that I will not be giving my students answers in a way that does not help them learn or understand the material. I want my students to be challenged and intrigued in figuring out math! I am excited to continue learning how to teach this in my classroom in this math methods course!