My Approach, My Teaching

Throughout the class, I learned about so many different approaches to teaching. Many of the readings in this class talked about straight approaches by themselves. I felt that these approaches were a little to extreme to be useful. A full executive approach would not benefit my math students in any way whatsoever. There are parts of the executive approach that do apply to the way I want to approach teaching. I want to be able to implement good time management into my classroom. I want to be able to have some of the structure of the executive approach but not as severe. There are parts of the facilitator and liberationist approaches that can be mixed into the executive approach in order to make it useful for the classroom. I want to help my students further themselves and find who they are and how they learn best. My students should feel comfortable and safe in my classroom. Respect, honesty, and encouragement are all qualities that I want to be able to implement in my classroom. I don’t think that there is a name for every teacher approach out there. Every approach that is label has such strict set of values to it, but I don’t fit into just one specific approach.

            

Most math classrooms I’ve been in are taught with such an executive approach. I know that I will most likely need the same type of structure in my classroom too, but I wan to add some other aspects of it.  I want to add collaborative activities, which is not something that I’ve ever really encountered much in high school level math classes. I want to find my students interests and show them how math concepts can connect to their hobbies and interests in life. I want to show them how they can apply math to everyday activities and so many parts of their future lives.