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Teaching grad degree? I'm willing to give this teaching gig a shot, but I want to be sure that there is a program out there where I can achieve my dual objective of learning how to handle a multicultural high-needs classroom and delivering high quality instruction.
These are two separate issues. I want to be someone who can understand a child's brain developmentally, see where I can make adjustments to help their learning. I want to learn how to cope with classroom management and stress. The other issue that I hope to become good at is delivering mathematics content that makes someone to think critically. In my opinion, math classes should be about people realizing a pattern relationship and not about rote memorization or drilled computations. Geometry especially is a subject that should only be about proving rather than computing.
I had some strong second thoughts about teaching in general after some experience at a failing inner city school. I still want to be committed to this profession but I can only do this if I have the right tools in front of me. For the past 3 years, I have been trained in my math for teaching undergrad program to do some Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra & Discrete Math and designing lesson plans. There's not enough preparation for me to teach a subject like Euclidean Geometry because I have not yet studied it very closely and I have trouble relating my subjects at a high school level (urban audience).
These are two separate issues. I want to be someone who can understand a child's brain developmentally, see where I can make adjustments to help their learning. I want to learn how to cope with classroom management and stress. The other issue that I hope to become good at is delivering mathematics content that makes someone to think critically. In my opinion, math classes should be about people realizing a pattern relationship and not about rote memorization or drilled computations. Geometry especially is a subject that should only be about proving rather than computing.
I had some strong second thoughts about teaching in general after some experience at a failing inner city school. I still want to be committed to this profession but I can only do this if I have the right tools in front of me. For the past 3 years, I have been trained in my math for teaching undergrad program to do some Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra & Discrete Math and designing lesson plans. There's not enough preparation for me to teach a subject like Euclidean Geometry because I have not yet studied it very closely and I have trouble relating my subjects at a high school level (urban audience).