New Insights and Implications

I am finally starting to see the importance of reform-based teaching. I realized that all of these concepts we are developing, I had no idea why they were in place before. I learned that in elementary school I just went through the motions to arrive at the right answer without even understanding why I did what I did. Now, I can hardly remember how to do any of that anyways. I think I still have a lot of practicing left to do before I could actually implement this into my classroom, but I do know now that this is a style I would prefer to teach. The critical thinking skills required for this course are the skills that I have always lacked. Being able to think critically in math would also lead to the ability to think this way in other subjects. I do hope that watching my classmates teach their LPU's to the class helps me feel more comfortable teaching this in my own future classroom.