Idea: No matter how long it takes, if they haven't mastered the skill you just can't move on.
Reflection 1: I agree with this whole heartily, but I have this feeling that it would be hard to actually practice this pedagogy in my own classroom. I for sure had this problem in my first placement. My associate kept telling me, "you're going to slow", "you need to hustle" and even went so far to tell me to teach three lessons in one 50 minute period. There HAD to be a student that was behind after that class. And I think I knew who it was, and of course I don't think I did enough to help her out. The amount of have, I didn't have enough of it
Reflection 2: I think as far as my teaching practice and presence in the classroom goes, I need a bit more time myself to fully grasp the important things that are going on. Math as a whole I'm not comfortable to teach to start, so not only will students need time to grasp concepts I need some time too. I think that's where I had the most problems in my first placement. I needed time too. I needed some sense of mastery too.
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