My plan? I see myself teaching at a smaller school soon (maybe rural, right now it seems as though it might be a private school), building a reputation as a knowledgeable and thorough mathematics teacher. I dream of having a great deal of material compiled into coherent lessons for my students to access. This dream, I feel, is already on its way with the construction of this blog! One day I hope that it hosts all of my material and that I can use it to address changes that I make to each lesson!
I'm thinking five years. That's what I need to have all my lessons ready to go by the first day of classes. This is not to say that I won’t be working on my lessons, just setting some goals for myself. A base lesson for each day that I can easily differentiate based on the students I have in the classroom.
I want to be able to talk to students about their learning preferences and to be able to show an active interest in helping them learn the way that they learn best. But I fear that I will begin to believe that it won’t be until after I compile all of my material that I can begin to do this.
The hard work that I intend to put into these first several years of my career will, hopefully, help define my work later in my career. I am not quite sure that I want to be a part of a large school with its own mathematics department. I fear that I will become lazy, and dependant upon the work that the people before me have accomplished. I sincerely hope that this is not the case! Perhaps a couple years of hard work will convince me otherwise.
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