What is the most effective way to teach? Can students really learn and fully understand the material that teachers pass on to them every day? According to a middle school math professor, his traditional teaching methods were not as effective and did not have the long-term impact he would have liked. The article “Never say what a child can say!” » enriches us with the possibility of applying small, incremental changes to our teaching methods and how we might find ways to use this information in the search for more effective teaching methods to encourage students to explain their thinking and to become more deeply involved in class discussions, thus developing their questioning skills (Reinhart, 2000). After analyzing his research, I can say that as an aspiring mathematics teacher myself, there are some positive aspects to his new teaching methods, as well as some questions that concern me regarding the longevity of this approach of teaching. As a middle school math student teacher in Chippewa Falls, WI, Steven Reinhart often found that even his thorough planning and detailed lessons did not produce good results from his students. He wanted to know why, as perfect as his classes were, his students' level of achievement was so low. It even made him question his own teaching methods. Reinhart then came up with the idea to commit to gradually changing his teaching methods by 10% each year. In an effort to simply teach a single topic in a better way than the previous year, he "gathered and used materials and ideas from supplements, workshops, professional journals, and university courses" to achieve this objective (Reinhart, 2000). major flaw that he noticed while he was in... workplace... the approach only focuses on a single subject each year and I don't see how this would be productive and effective over the long term. 'one year. We need to cover a number of subjects and if we focus on just one for the entire year, what would our students ultimately learn? I feel like I would find comfort in my classroom by incorporating the student-based method of teaching, but I would also find interesting ways to improve their overall skills using the more traditional student-based methods. teacher. I agree with his position on effective teaching using this method. method and although he notes that it is impractical and almost impossible to incorporate everything he suggested at any time, the ideas he presented provide perspective and as a future teacher, all that will help me develop further as a teacher is something I hope to be able to do. throughout my teaching career.