Blog #5

This chapter has brought up many topics that future teachers must be aware of as they continue preparing themselves to teach. How will we be teaching our students? What does it mean for the students to understand the material? I like the Charlotte example that the author presented. I think that many teachers have a curriculum which they follow too strictly. This causes the teachers to rush through certain topics and does not allow the student to completely grasp the context. The kids in Charlotte learned and were interested when they sat in their groups and discussed a topic. When asked why they were interested more that day, one student said that he was able to remember it because he could feel it. "It has to do with emotion," he said. When teachers rush through assignments and expect kids to 'remember; and 'understand' something, do they really want them to understand it? Or is it just so they could take a test, score a C, and move on to the next topic? We have to make teaching something valuable and teach our students in a way that matters to them so they can be successful.