Executive!

I have seen the executive approach a lot in my academic career, especially since I have chosen math and science as my main fields of studies ever since I was in high school. Many, if not all, of my math and science teachers have used an executive approach to teaching. These are subject areas that need that time management and a more structured, straightforward approach, especially math. When learning math, there is almost a built-in structure. Math builds upon itself. Every lesson needs to be addressed in order and in a timely manner in order to be able to teach everything. As I have been working my way through my college math courses, I have had to pull information from math classes that I took in junior high. If you really think about it math is structured to continually build. You learn the four simple operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and then from there everything expands more into things like derivatives and integrals. It is amazing to looks how much my math background has benefitted from the type of teaching approaches and classroom structures my teachers implemented. The executive approach helps to see how much the students are retaining from the class by doing regularly scheduled tests after a specific set of lessons is finished.

As a teacher, to use the executive approach to teaching, I feel that you almost have a little bit better management of the classroom and the students. Reading what just the straight executive approach is, it seems a little strict in its way of teaching. I think that using the executive approach as the basis for teaching but also incorporating parts of the other types of approaches can be very beneficial to teachers. I feel it would help to connect a little better with more of the students in your class.