Burning Questions

Teachers

1) How do you balance authority and care?

2) What are the issues that keep coming back every year?

3) How do you keep the students involved and motivated?

4) Why did you choose math teaching as a profession?

5) How do you cater for individual differences?

6) For student teacher, which grade level is more challenging to teach, grade 8 or grade 12?

7) Assuming you are a sponsor teacher, what would you do if a student makes a

     conceptual mistake in your math class?

9) Assuming you are a sponsor teacher, in evaluating a student teacher, will you value

     instrumental teaching ability over relational teaching ability or vice versa?

10) When students do not respect you in your class, what would you do?

11) What do you find is the most challenging part of being a math teacher?

12) What in your opinion are some of the common mistakes beginner (math) teachers make when they first start teaching and what advice would you give them so as to avoid such mistakes?

13) Is there anything you wish you’d known or been told about this profession before you began teaching?

14) In a class with students of all varying degrees of math skill, how do you plan your lesson/what methods do you use so that all students are included in the learning and discussion?