reflections!
everyone went today! XDD
reached at about 4.40pm today~
Auntie Yewhwa had already went home, so we couldn't discuss the CID outing with her further..
(update: she has smsed me, must confirm with group this coming monday)
An was still having percussion, so i took mel aka jj first.
jj was having problems with his maths, and it went "
there are 3 times more boys than girls"
and DENGDENG!
sarah's method of teaching came into my head!
so i told him to take it as
3units for boys, and
1unit for girls! and he understood immediately, but we practiced 4 more such questions to make sure he was familiar with it.
(looking back at my primary school days, i wished my teacher taught me like that! i had problems with the "than" too!! and she tried to teach me what "than" meant, and then sent me to my english teacher to try and make me understand.. she shld've just used "units" =.=)& he also had problems differentiating bigger from smaller numbers, and even from odd!
told him to remember
"even and odd numbers don't like their own kind. so they want to change all the time! the smallest number is 0, right? just remember that zero is even! so 1 will be odd, 2 be even, 3 be odd, 4 be even, 5 be odd, 6 be even, 7 be odd, 8 be even, and 9 be odd!
when you see whether a number is odd or even, just see the last number! infront all dont care!
22222222222222222222 -> even!
22222222222222222223 -> odd!
"but for bigger and smaller numbers, see the infront! if the first number infront is the same, then go to the second number, then third! once there is a bigger or smaller number in the front few numbers, the back no need to care!!
2222 -> smaller!
3222 -> bigger!
4387 -> bigger!
4321 -> smaller!
and following that, An came out, and he went "jieJIE!! HURRY! I WANT YOU TO TEACH ME"
and i was like WHOA! O.O why is he so enthu today?
and so i went with him, and asked jj to finish up his assessment books, and then come and ask me if he has any more questions.
so i followed An to the table, and he plopped his book onto the table, flipped to that page.
half of it was blank, but the top half was all filled.
the bottom ones were easier than the top few, so i asked him "O.O? what is it you dont know? you know how to do the hard ones leh!!"
GUESS WHAT HE SAID.
"是那个JC姐姐帮我做的。"
i tell you, i wanted to explode and hate acjc forever. this is what, the umpteenth time that i have the children telling me "is she help me do one." "he say, i just do." "she show me how to do all".
when will they freaking realise that teaching isn't showing or providing answers?!?!
not only are they wasting time with the kids, the children think they know how to do, then they dont ask, and they'll only realise it when the exams come, or when other mini-teachers like us quiz them. and it changes their mindset, making them super unwilling to learn, making our job, the real teaching, even more difficult.
anyway, then i erased all and told An to try on his own.. out of 8, he got 6 wrong. how did he get the 2 correct? cause he managed to remember the working before i erased it -.-
(during the checking of his answers, i took out my calculator to quickly see if the final answer is correct)
so i told him, cannot, all wrong! and i proceeded to erase the 6 wrong ones. he let me erase. while i was erasing, he saw Ro(farah's tutee) using farah's calculator to check his (already worked out by himself)answers.
then he tried to grab mine too. i put it out of his reach, and asked him why on earth he wanted my calculator for. he said "to find the answer loh!"
i said he can't learn that way, and tried to teach him how to do long division all over again! and he was super unwilling, had a super bad attitude and called me "STUPID" all the way.
i ignored the first few times, cause i could understand him being frustrated, having to re-learn what he THOUGHT he knew (stupid acjc "tutor" -.-)
however, the method we're all using is interactive, and needs the tutee to think, and to answer the questions we pose (to help them remember better, and to make sure they truly know how to do the questions)
his answer: "ZERO LA, STUPID"
me: "the number that is close to or exactly 8, but not exceeding 8, and a multiple of 3, is 0?"
his answer: "THEN? STUPID LA."
after continuous abuse poor me suffered at his hands, and after i realised he diedie also wont pay attention, and after he cried and shouted at me and kicked the chair and threw all over the place the workings i tried to teach him, I WAS FED UP.
during the abuse i suffered at his hands, i remember that;
Ro piped up "oh.. later An go crazy again and dont want to learn"
then it hit me that that he uses this tactic to avoid learning. they wont bend to his terms? then he wont learn lor.
last time whenever he cried, i would back peddle and let him have his way, or at least try to make a compromise.
no more, man.
he wants to throw a tantrum? fine.
i put my paper in between the pages, closed the book, and slid the book over to his corner of the table, out of my sight.
then i said "talk to me when you're ready to learn."
conveniently, jj came up at my other side, and i turned my back towards An, and taught JJ instead.
then An took out my paper and threw them all over the place again (i previously picked them up). this time i picked up the papers and said "you want to throw? ok." then i threw them into the dustbin.
then i resumed my seat, and continued teaching JJ.
then An pushed his book infront of me, flipped to the page and shouted "TEACH LA"
i asked: "are you ready to learn?"
he shouted back: "NO LA"
then i closed the book and pushed it over to his side again.
the book is with him. the choice is with him.
then after another time, he pushed it infront of me again for the 3rd time.
this time i didnt even bother asking him whether he was ready. i just took out the paper, and did everything out, while voicing out loud how i got that number, what i did next, why i did it.
and then after i was done, i nudged the book to him. and he picked up his pencil and tried to do. and he could do it!! (with a bit of prompting from me)
his attitude was a whole 360! he was listening super attentively when i did the question out loud.
and i realised that apart from not knowing how to do long div properly, he also had extra difficulties cause he was not familiar with the 7 and 8 times table.
well, my purpose there is to teach him, and to make it easier for him to learn long div, the basics, i wrote out for him the 7 and 8 times table.
he could do all the questions by himself with a rare prompt or two from me! :DD
felt like we were finally getting somewhere, and i finally managed to handle him and tantrums!! XDD
and i must thank my mum for forcing me to memorise the times table when i was in p3! if i hadnt then, i surely wouldnt be able to swiftly learn my long division or multiplication or stuffs! so yeah, i realised the importance of memorising the times table!
so i told him to better bring home the paper and memorise, next week we'll have a competition to see who can learn more! (cue picked from farah!).
and he went like "oh. OKAY!" then made sure that i put the correct piece of paper into his pencilcase to prevent me from "cheating" LOL
and he became super nice to me after that, sharing with me the jelly (LOL) that the percussion ppl gave him.
i brand today has highly successful! and all the best to his exams man :DD
i realised, after the entire saga, that he probably changed his attitude cause i wasnt doing what was expected. i believe i wasnt the first person he threw a tantrum, cause he was frustrated he didnt know how to do, how to answer, to. he probably threw it at the acjc students, and then they caved in, and told him the answers. when i didnt, and actually threw away what he was throwing around for show, he didnt know how to react. so bo bian, just learn lor -.-
and im hoping that he became super nice to me after that, because he was happy that i finally taught him, and he finally knew, the way to do long division. it's quite exhilarating to finally understand something that's eluded you for ages, ya know ;D
all the best to your exams, Jellytarts!!
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