Gotta be FLEXIBLE

Tuesday, February 8th

Today was supposed to be the day I taught an introduction to trigonometry to my three geometry classes. However, when I was going over the homework with the classes from the previous two lessons, which were over The Pythagorean Theorem and Special Right Triangles, I noticed a majority of the class was still struggling on the material. I wanted to keep moving on to the new concepts, but without a solid grasp of the older concepts I felt that moving on would end disastrously. After making a decision I decided to go over several of the problems on the worksheet and then give the rest of the shortened class time to the students to work on their homework that was suppose to be due today.

I am now learning that a teacher needs to be flexible with their daily and weekly plans, have confidence in their decisions, and have plenty of erasers to change the lesson plan book.