Final Reflection

While this may be the last post for this class, I hope I will continue to use this as a place for me to reflect on what I am doing and why.  When I look back over my posts, what I see is myself reflecting on what I have read, learned, experienced or thought about.  These are important for teachers, or regular people!, to reflect on so that we can improve and better utilize what we experience.  So I think what I see when I look back over my posts is the benefit of reflections.  They really help me and they will really help my students when I have them write them for their portfolios.  Thinking about our thinking helps us retain what we have learned.  During the discussion with my group today via Skype it hit me that there is a difference, in math at least, between being able to do something and understanding it.  Reflections can help me understand what I know and can do.  I want my students to understand what they have the ability to do.  If they understand it, they may better know when to apply it.