Course Reflection

I enjoyed the course 342 very much. It is definitely the most interesting course I was taking this term. Every time when I was doing the homework for this course all my fatigue went away. I want to thank Professor Gerofsky for sharing so many interesting stories and problems and useful ideas and concepts with us. I am also interested in studying curriculum and planning lessons, so this course is really my favorite one. 

My favorite article is "Arbitrary Vs. Necessary." How we, as math teachers, make the knowledge more necessary to students rather than arbitrary is what we should consider when we are making lesson plans.  To use this concept correctly, I think I need to re-read it one or two more times. 

My favorite puzzle is… I like all of them. The locker problem and the scales problem are two puzzles that took me the longest time to solve. I found high school students love doing puzzles too. I think it is necessary to continuously collect and compile relevant (if possible) interesting puzzles for each lesson plan. It could help us to foster a love of mathematics in students. 

My favorite activity is " Teaching Perspectives Inventory." This activity helps me understand my own teaching perspectives better. I would like to do it again in the future. I believe Nurturing will always be my dominant perspective. I am not sure if the developmental perspective will change or not, but it is my recessive teaching perspective now. 

I hope one day I could also make my Math course interesting like EDCP 342. I would like to thank Professor Gerofsky for letting me have such an amazing learning experience.