Wednesday, 24 August 2011
:: Day 3 -Lesson with a Guest Trainer, Ms Peggy Foo ::
Let's have a little BRAIN CHECK.
Oh! Ok .. My brain's functioning again! Woo HoOoo!!
Anyway, before we proceed further with today's entry, pls view the links posted at my previous entry to have a rough idea of what I am about to share with you.
For last night's lesson, we watched 3 research videos on teachers teaching the concept of 'More' and 'Less' to a group of K1 students. In the 1st video, the teacher seems to be rathere unenthusiatic (is there such a word?!) most probably because she has 10 over people observing her. Anyway one thing that caught my mind while watching the video was that she had big and creative materials as her teaching tools
(2 big trees, apples cut-outs and a big dice) which I think was quite distracting. And it doesn't help that the apples kept on falling off when she pasted them on the tree!
The second video was in fact a revise version of the first lesson where the types of materials used, the lesson delivery was tweaked a little and I personally feel that the teacher did better in the 2nd video than she did in the 1st. This time around, she only used Unifix cubes.
Here, let us all remind ourselves that sometimes having "Less is More!" Using simple manipulatives will help children to grasp a concept better than having fanciful ones.
The third video is of our lecturer teaching a group of K1 children as they explore with unifix cubes to create different structures.
And from watching those videos, I concluded that the following points contributed a lot to how effective your lesson is going to be. Take a look at this...
1) Sitting arrangement
2) Level of teacher-students engagement and involvement
3) Use of materials
4) Flow and sequence of lesson
5) Classroom Management
6) Communication between teacher and children
7) Questioning techniques
8) Attitudes and disposition of teacher
9) Differentiation (level of learning)
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BTW
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This morning, I did a "more' and 'Less' activity with one of the student in my centre.
We started out with using some manipulatives and when I saw how eager and excited he was, I extended the activity by providing him with abstract (pictures) and numerals.
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Overall, he was able to do the activity independently and while doing a re-kept on the lesson, he was able to articulate what is more and what is less.
Ms Dwi: So Asher, do you know what I mean when I say 'A' has MORE?
Asher: Means got many things or big numbers. Cannot be 1 thing or number 1 correct?
Ms Dwi: Well done! What about LESS?
Asher: Means very little thing lor. Not many thing like in the 'A' paper.
So that was how the lesson went with LiL Asher who's by the way ... not even 5 yet!
Oh. Btw we did a group activity on Unifix cubes. we were instructed to create different structures using only 5 cubes and the GOLDEN RULE is that no matter how you rotate the structure, one must never be the same as the others.
To cut things short, other group beat us to it! Shessshhhh!!!
It was fun though and I am sure gonna try that out with the kids one of these days.
Anyway some of you might think that Unifix are just boring looking tiles and wonder why should we use them in teaching MATH.
THAT is why you should use those cubes!
MORAL OF THE STORY??!
DON'T JUDGE A BOOK CUBE BY ITS COVER LOOK!!
LASTLY PLS PLS PLS ...
CAN I HAVE ANOTHER PEG PLSSSS!!
-ME-
Being a 1st timer taking and teaching a K1 class, I think Ms Peggy deserves A ROUND OF APPLAUSE! *clap, clap* (though there are still room for improvements)
She deserved a WOODEN PEG!!
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