Even if you haven't seen the Eureka math program in action or heard your cooperating teacher speak about it, give you opinion about standardized curriculum programs and whether they benefit students and teachers.

In my opinion standardized curriculum programs are very good at helping students to excel in math. The programs I've seen offer a lot of differentiated instruction. a lot of students have different ways of solving a math problem and the program is helping and facilitating those learning strategies. they benefit the students but, I'm not so sure they benefit the teachers. A lot of the math strategies we've been learning in class goes completely against what I've been taught in schools. its new and its challenging and a little bit of fun. But, I feel as though we are expecting the impossible from teachers, I feel like asking teachers to differentiate instruction to the point where every single child is being catered to is a lot of work. And honestly I would definitely want to be paid what I'm worth for that kind of instruction. Now this may seem very controversial and very against the normal way of teaching. However I've been in classrooms where the teacher reviews the concepts and hands her kids a math worksheet. I've been in classrooms where instruction has a very one way approach to it and a lot of the time its effective. Now I understand children learn in different ways and I'm not saying differentiating instruction doesn't work I'm just saying if i work hard all day and then come in on the weekends and spend hours in my classroom, I want to be paid what I'm worth. The only thing I don't like about the teaching field is the fact that quite frankly we aren't paid what were worth. Now i knew going into teaching I am doing it because I love kids and that is essentially why I'm still here. because I want to see kids learn and grow. I want to see their faces light up when they get it. Thats the joy.