Understanding

During each class period, I try to take a minute and make sure that the class can follow what I've been teaching and the material that is being covered. I try to allow the students time to reflect on everything and see if something doesn't make sense. I enjoy the feedback that the students give when they truly do or don't understand what I'm talking about. When the students provide me with this feedback, it gives me an idea of where the class is as a whole. It allows me to see if I need to take a step back and recover something or if we can proceed forward. I also really enjoy when students ask questions about how/why something happened on the board. A majority of the time, the student that asks isn't the only one in the class that has that type of question about a solution. I will try to do this more and more as we get into harder material. I hope that at anytime in the class period that a student doesn't understand, just to toss up a hand and let me know what I can clear up.