It's crazy to think that we are already done classes. I still remember going to my first class in August and I was thinking that March seemed so far away at the time. In this class, I definitely learned a lot about effective teaching of mathematics, unit planning, lesson planning, spiraling the curriculum, backwards design and many other components that I did not list. Overall, this class was very insightful and it provided me with comfort that I am ready to teach math in a high school classroom
Moving towards my next block, I feel a lot more confident in my ability then I did going into my first block. Even when I woke up today for my observation day I wasn't thinking "how am I going to do this" like I was on the first observation day. I feel that goes for everything that you do for the first time. Whether it be riding a bike, going skiing, first university exam you are going to get nervous as you have never experienced it before. I am teaching math in this block and I greatly look forward to it as I feel it will be a change from my other teachable geography. I know I will definitely use lesson activities and skills that I learned from this class to help with my everyday planning.
If I could take one thing away from this course it would be that teaching is not an easy task (especially math) as there is so many different abilities within one classroom. BUT, that being said it is an incredibly rewarding profession because once that student has that "Aha" moment and is able to understand the concept that you are trying to teach them then it makes you feel good. It makes all the nights that you spent planning and changing your ideas all worth it when your students have a great time in the classroom and are still learning the concepts at the same time. Math doesn't have to be chalkboard and textbook work all the time. Why not use creative apps and games such as Desmos to enhance student's learning because let's be honest textbook work can get really boring day in and day out. I know that when I go to my math teaching block I will try my absolute best to make my lessons as creative and technologically interactive as I can.
