SO i thought that i would share this... As I have been moving through this course I have been having several chats with a fellow math instructor. He finds the topic of reformed and traditional teaching very interesting and its really great to have someone to bounce ideas off of. Anyway, I was telling him about the difference schools we were reading about and how they have two completely different teaching methods and we got to chatting about how these methods may or may not work in the Post-secondary system. From his perspective he instructs the courses which are transferable to MUN thus he has to insure the students are prepared for the MUN exam and has very little time to cover the materials required. Thus, he (by the way he has been instructing now for over 20 years) finds that the traditional method is the way he has to instruct for the most part. But after we had some discussion he had decided to try the reform method someone of open-ended questioning with one of his classes (in which only had one student, both the advantage and disadvantage of teaching in Labrador), and he found that this was quite insightful but again time consuming. However, he did mention that he feels that this students will remember this concept better because she "developed" it herself. He wishes there was more time for this type of instruction but unfortuneatly that is not the case.
I thought this was very insightful. Hearing what another instructor has tried. Anyway, I just wanted to share this.
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