The most important thing to teach - BLOG ENTRY 2

In my opinion, one of the most important things to accomplish while teaching my subject is to make my pupils see the importance of the knowledge that I’m sharing with them and its application to real life. This is something that I’m already doing now with all the curriculum restrictions and I would reinforce it if I were free to design my own curriculum.

Although Maths is a subject that has some areas of knowledge which are plenty of real life examples and applications, there are also many other areas which are not properly covered in this way. In fact, even those that have clear applications are not usually exercised in a real context or with communicative practices.

So that, I would like to teach my subject with a proper reorganization of the contents along the different courses which let me include more real life practices and more group activities. This would be a great way to promote a subject that students usually are afraid of and a fantastic method to improve and promote communication and language practice too. 

 Under this approach, the evaluation could be focused on how students try to find and solve problems (alone but also as part of a group) interacting with other students and confronting real life situations where acquired knowledge must be applied.