Self-Reflection on Interview with Teacher and Students

In our interview with two female high school students, they both said that a good math teacher should make math classes more excited and more fun, which is not surprising since I agree that the most challenge part to teach math is to get the students interested and excited in math, and this corresponds with our teacher interviewee’s response. One way to make math more fun is group activities!

From teacher interviewee’s responses, I learn that we have to know various ways of solving same problems since every student learn and understand concepts differently, so we have to use different methods to teach them. From our interview with students, one like taking notes, yet one learn better by group activities, so it is really important for teachers to try different methods of teaching. To sum up, we have to flexible and open-minded.

Furthermore, interviewee said she ask teacher for help and the other one said she ask friends for help. So, I think it is really important to make myself approachable to students, and encourage them to come to me if they have questions; also, have some office hour or extra time outside the class.