As a teacher, what is your vision for your mathematics instruction? What do you want your classroom to look like? What type of work do you want your students to do? What do you want your students to accomplish in your mathematics classroom?
As a teacher, I hope that I am able to be patient with my students. I want to use my past experiences with math and understand that not all of my students will understand something the first time around. I hope to be able to show my students multiple approaches for solving problems.
I want my classroom to be an organized environment where my students feel comfortable. I don't want my classroom to be distracting. It needs to be functionally and organized. I want to be able to show my student's work around the classroom so they can be proud of their work but make sure it is done in a way that the students will not be distracted by it.
I want my students to do more than math worksheets. I want them to be able to do math projects and assignments that are fun and engaging. I want my students to be challenged but also to achieve a lot in the class. I want them to feel confident in themselves. I hope that they can all get to a point where they feel confident enough to not only explain to me how they solved something, but I also want them to be able to teach me new things. I hope that they are comfortable enough with the material that they can teach and help each other as well.
This is a well articulated vision...How do you think you might accomplish it? What might these "fun and engaging" projects look like? How will you plan for them? How will you interact with students as they work on them?
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