Last Thursday, we visited Heights High School. One question that came to mind while watching the teacher conduct her lesson was, how did she become so fluent with her lesson? She was extremely natural with every aspect of her classroom. I think a lot of this has to do with experience and practice. I also noticed that she has a lot of worksheets to hand out to her students. For this class, it seemed acceptable to have these worksheets because she was teaching AP Statistics. In my opinion, math classes should be allowed worksheets for practice. In the previous reading, I noticed that one of the chapters explained that teachers should not have a lot of worksheets for their students. For me, I love worksheets and the more you can practice, the more I can understand how to use the information. The author might have been talking about materials for younger students, so that would make more sense. The author might also be explaining that the students need more hand on activities.
In the current readings, they explained that in our teaching society, teachers teach just to have their students pass tests and their strategy for teaching is the same for every class or student. Instead, teachers should caring, have enthusiasm and belief that their students can be successful. Teachers should also adapt their teaching style with different groups of students. Learning for everyone is different so teaching styles should be different.
I'm not sure how our school system got to be like this, where tests and your average grade is more important than what students learned and how they can apply that to their life. Of course tests can be helpful, but standardized testing does not show how good teachers are. Test is too narrow of a scope. There needs to be a change in how we view teaching before it is all we know.
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