Disassociate From What We Know

Idea: In order to teach well, we need to disassociate ourselves from what we already know and explore something new

Reflection 1:Many of us were taught adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing in a certain way in school. Now as future teachers we need to start again from scratch and understand that there are many ways to solve math problems, and that as long as you get to the answer, your way is correct. Because our students will be learning at different rates and in need of a variety of ways in which material needs to be presented, we as teachers need to be flexible to this so that our student's are the most successful. Although I was met with some hesitation in learning these new ways, I knew that I needed to think a new way in order to help my students.

Reflection 2: I will eventually need to change some of my student's minds as well and help them explore a new way of learning math from what they experienced in the previous year. I know that it's easier to live within what we know even if it's wrong, so I might need to have some support when the time comes. Or just be really really persuasive.