Every person learns differently; and my job as a teacher is to be willing to listen, and be open to the needs, concerns, statements, questions, and thought processes of my students. This means that it is mandatory that I find ways to reinvent the "wheel" so to speak. Keeping in mind that I am teaching and learning new things by engaging in coversation and activities with my students. Bringing things full circle by building up knowledge already obtain and making a connection with new material. This means allowing the brain to rearrange itself inorder to grasp understanding of the new concepts presented in the classroom. Most importantly building a relationship of trust and confidence.

I am taking this Math for Educators and I have mixed feelings about it. It is not that I do not know how to do math. I can not really say that I do not like math, because over the years I have learned to love it. With that been said, I changed my mentality towards math. This really helped when I was taking math classes at Mott Community College and most of those classes were online coarses which I may add I did good in. Well, my oldest child loves math and all these years it was believed that I loved the subject, too. This was a big surprise, I did not. I wanted to make sure that my oldest child had a different outlook when it came to math and science. Reason being my attitude was negative like the rest of those in the world who had/have a bad attitude towards those subjects. I have actually learned more by helping my children and attending parent meetings on various subjects. (I can thank the staff at Neithercut specifically, Debra Ramsey, parent facilitator at Flint Community Schools). I loved the math and science nights because this information made it easy for me to help my child. Also, it gave me great ideas to do at home and outside of the home. Math and science are everywhere. For example, cooking is a great way to teach fractions! But with all that said I have a positive outlook concerning this coarse that I am currently taking...