Math post Week 5

salutations!

 This week what stood out to me is the fact that I am not alone in my pursuit of trying to best educate my students. There are a lot of  people that would very likely be willing to assist in any way they can. There are also a lot of people that would be able to enhance the richness of the in class experience tremendously by giving advice and a nformation that cannot be found in textbooks or anywhere else. Some of these people could become life-long partners with you in your quest to help your students achieve their utmost potential. A list of some of these Partnerships within the school include, but are not limited to:
 1. professionals
 2. parents
 3. colleagues

Professionals are great people for us as teachers to get in contact with. If a teacher can build a good relationship with a professional then they might find in them a life-long friend who would be willing to come out to their class and participate in the educational process of their students. Professionals can give real life experience from their careers and share with students stories they experience first hand on a day to day basis. They will give students a chance to look into a career that is related to mathematics and that they might pursue. It is s great way of relate the work that is done in class to the work's "real" world applications. There can be many examples, but one that comes to mind is architecture, and maybe asking an architect to stop by the class.

Parents are also great people to be in contact with. Parents will undoubtedly have their children's best interests as a priority and therefore would be excellent resources in helping you with you goals. Parents would have an intimate connection with their children and might therefore be better and helping identify their children's strength and areas in need of improvement. Once the students strengths and areas in need of improvement have been identified the parents would be able to assist their children, and if not, would at the very least be able to help direct you to what needs to be done, in the most efficient way possible.

Colleagues are also a tremendous help. Some colleagues may older, and can thus give you advice based on years of experience. Some colleagues may be younger, and thus can give you a 'fresh' and different perspective on things. As a matter of fact, regardless of age, it is very likely that everyone you come across will have at least one thing that they can add to enrich you in some way. Colleagues can share resources, for example, tests, assignments and videos, to name a few.

All in all there may be a lot of other partnerships that have not been mentioned, however, it is hard to imagine any that would surpass Professionals, Parents and colleagues in terms of the impact they can have.



Ps.
 Physicists are another group of professionals that rely heavily on mathematics    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SrHzSGn-I8