Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Teacher Vision
My vision for teaching mathematics is all over the place right now because there are so many things I want to include in my future teaching. The first thing I know I see in my classroom is many experiments and hands on activities. I want my students to be able to explore concepts and figure out concepts and answers for themselves. Even in younger grades I would want my students to prove why something is the way it is. I also want to use a lot of manipulatives in my classroom to help represent abstract concepts. I feel like it allows students to get more hands on with their mathematical learning and can help them envision a harder concept we are learning in class. I also want to give support and guidance to those students that are struggling by giving tutoring sessions along with finding new ways to explain concepts and work them. Along with struggling students I also want to make sure to reward my students that are on task as well as the students that are more gifted. I want to encourage those students that need a challenge and give them extended problems or more complex work to enhance their learning experience. Overall I want my math classroom to be open and accepting. I want to have discussions and connect ideas to on another. I want my students to know they can ask my questions and ask for help when they don't understand something. I want to teach my students to work together with a partner as well in small groups to learn the different roles of responsibilities. I also want my students to be independent to work by themselves. As for my role I want to be organized and have time to strategically analyze my students work in order to figure out how to support their individual learning. If I am in an older elementary classroom I will make sure to grade tests and papers. I will plan lessons where I am able to explain concepts in many ways in order to support different types of learning. I know I may not be able to accomplish everything the first year of teaching but through experience and practice I hope I can strive to complete my vision for my mathematics classroom.
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It's perfectly fine that your vision for teaching is still in the process of forming, and it's also healthy that you temper your ambition a bit, as you do in the last sentence here. The important thing is to realize that you will not be expected to be a "perfect" teacher at the beginning nor at the end of next year...the important thing is to continue to grow towards your goals, which means continuing to try new things and to assess how they work.
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