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I teach math. I’m known as a hard teacher (my quizzes & tests aren’t easy). I expect my students to practice\u00a0math daily. I expect them to ask questions when things aren’t clear. I expect them to engage the material and that the grades will follow as a result of authentically learning. I encourage them not to focus on the grades as that simply drives stress and draws focus away from actual learning.<\/p>\n
This fall, I have been completing math assignments and writing math quizzes as a grad student at the U of Waterloo<\/a>. There is a slight difference between me and my students as I have chosen to complete a math program, but my precalculus students are also choosing to take a more advanced math than what is required to graduate.<\/p>\n Since\u00a0I am choosing the program and will have been choosing my upcoming courses, I do feel more free and desirous of learning the math software\u00a0and\u00a0concepts and also excited about\u00a0completing expectations long before the deadlines arrive.<\/p>\n The assigned readings and practice is not onerous, but enlightening.<\/p>\n My\u00a0professors are always available to help me, though I like to try other avenues before sending them\u00a0a message. I do get lost on occasion and some of the quizzes have caught me unaware.<\/p>\n I go over my mistakes in order to carry the knowledge forward.<\/p>\n So essentially, I am exemplefying what my expectations are towards my own students. The only exception that I find difficult\u00a0is not obsessively checking my\u00a0grades as I complete my online assignments.\u00a0I don’t really care about my GPA, but curiosity drives me to know if\u00a0I have excelled to the point I was aiming for.<\/p>\n I can understand my keen students all the more now. I can also relate to those students who are a bit lost in my class as I lack some background in some fields of math that are used in teaching software and proofs. It forces me to research online and fill those gaps.<\/p>\n Initiative, determination and deep interest seem to be the keys in\u00a0to actual learning. I haven’t been off the mark in how I’ve related to my students, but I now have more understanding towards their process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I teach math. I’m known as a hard teacher (my quizzes & tests aren’t easy). I expect my students to practice\u00a0math daily. I expect them to ask questions when things aren’t clear. I expect them to engage the material and that the grades will follow as a result of authentically learning. I encourage them not … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-2901","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-education","9":"category-math"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}