“Based on the vision you elaborated last week, what role will math instruction play in your classroom and why? Specifically, what are the mathematical instructional techniques or methods that fit with your vision? Be as specific as possible. These can include assessment, planning, or interactive teaching.”
Ideally in the future I want math instruction to be apparent in multiple areas of learning such as language arts, social studies and science. I want my students to be able to express their mathematical thoughts by using their knowledge in other subject matters. I know this takes a lot of hard work and dedication to integrate math into other areas, but I feel like it is important to treat math as normal as possible. I want my students to feel comfortable performing math tasks and completing assignments based off concepts learned in class. I don't want my students to think that we just do math in the specific allotted time during the day. As well, I want the assessment process of my math instruction to be public to my students. When assessing their mathematical skills, I want each individual student to be aware at what level they are individually at. I want them to tell me what they think they need to work on and how they think I could help them as well as how they can help themselves. By creating a learning plan together, students take ownership and feel like they matter in the situation. I want to work with other teachers at my grade level to share ideas and build off one another in order to plan math instruction. Planning group lessons or group mathematical projects is a great way for students to have fun in math and interact with one another. It would also be a positive way to publish certain math work or projects to another group of students. As for interactive teaching, in all subject matters I want to be an interactive and hands on teacher. I believe that some math facts have to be memorized first off in order to build off those ideas to make them more complicated. Students cannot perform long division if they do not know their multiplication facts. Even though some of these math facts can be tedious, after all the basics are laid out there is so much I want to do. After seeing math centers in action in my 4th grade classroom, I want to plan many interactive math centers in my classroom no matter what the grade. As well, I want to perform real life situational skits where the students have to act out simple mathematical concepts such as adding, subtracting, regrouping or borrowing. This way students can relate what they are learning on a piece of paper to something they would experience in real life.
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