Personal Concerns and Next Steps

I see many people who are stating there personal concerns with the overall success in the class. My personal concern however, is about my future success in teaching math in this new way. I understand that building off of a students previous knowledge and having them realize what concept builds off of another concept is really important. My fear is am I going to be effective at teaching in this method since I have not been prepared by my previous teachers and instructors? My overall goal is to be a middle school math teacher or a middle school science teacher. However, if I am not able to teach math effectively like we have been shown over the last seven weeks, I am not sure that I should teach math. One main thing that I think is going to be very helpful is teaching the lesson that our group has picked out for December 1st. I think in order to teach math this way, it is great to see other groups teach in this method, but most importantly get some practice for yourself. Another thing that I have been doing is writing how each concept fits into another concept, and how we have been building off of the simplest concepts. I feel like the type of math processes that we have been learning in class have been allot more fun than the average and boring math problems. I think that in order to teach math in this way, we as the future teachers are going to have to do allot of research and learn from our mistakes. I know mistakes are not the worst things that could happen to you as the teacher, but by limiting them you will be better for the students. I am hoping through practice, research, and hard work I can become very efficient at teaching math using this new method we have been taught since the beginning of the semester.