Final Week
Over the last 6 weeks, I have come not only to appreciate but fully agree with the new philosophy of teaching math to make it rich and meaningful for our students. I thought it did make sense to teach math using this approach but I was still on the fence about adopting this mentality as I was comfortable with the traditional method of teaching math and it worked for me as a student. However, as the world has changed and continues to change at breakneck speed, I now believe that it is imperative that our teaching methodology evolves accordingly. Today’s teaching cannot be not a one-size fits all approach that stresses memorization. Students should not be passive recipients of information that is delivered through an authority model. Source: http://bit.ly/2P4qJhh I learned that differentiation is something that we must incorporate in our teaching. While the lecture style approach may work for some students, there ar