Friday, October 15, 2010
Personal Concerns
After having been in class for a while, I have the concern of not liking this way of teaching. I understand the concept of it, and how it will be beneficial to students. But I think about how I was taught and how well I excelled in Math because of the way I was taught. I love Math and I will say that what I haven't had to use, I've lost, but I just don't know if I had been taught a different way, would the outcome have been the same. Would my love for Math still be there if I was taught the way we are talking about? In order to move forward with this, I am going to have to think through my past Math classes and how I could incorporate reform based teaching into it, so that the students who will learn from traditional teachings can learn right along with those that will learn better from reform based. This means extra thinking time for me, and in class I will need to focus on how I can use what I am learning in a different way.
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Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI agree! I'm not sure this way of teaching math is for me either. I'm so frustrated with the assignments most of the time I just want to give up. All the stress and agrivation is deffinantly not something i want my students to go through.I'm afraid that students who already don't like math would hate it even more if they struggled like this to find a solution. I feel like there has to be some happy middle ground between this way of teacher and the old out of the book way.
I have also always loved math. It has always been a subject that I understood, or at least I thought I understood! Many times in this class I have really questioned whether or not I really have an understanding of this material. Much like you, I have also wondered how I would feel about math if I had been taught this way. It is interesting to think about. I'm not sure if I will ever have an answer for it, but I do know that I would have a better understanding of math if I were taught this way!
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