reflections 21/5/08
Hello Sarah jelly here again.
We had station games and tutoring.
Let's start with tutoring...- Talk more to C today, she at least answers most of my questions and know that i'm sarah instead of ali baba.
-Also learnt that her CCA is handbell and chimes, same as mine in primary school =)))))
-She told me she failed her maths last lesson. I did not really believed it then, now i guess it's true. she told me she had alot of problem sums question which she didn't know how to solve.
Its my fault as i have not even touch problem sums with her at all. So i was intending to teach her a little bit of problem sums. Teaching her a simple question similar to last time XY and J corrections.
I see that most of the students there did their maths assement until 60+ pages already but C still stuck at 43, which consist of division and multiplication questions not problem sums yet.
Up till now, i guess i had only taught her 4-5 times. Thats why she is lagging behind. So i have to work harder.
- However, she had some problem focusing. When she was trying to do multiplication question, she would stare into blank space, then colour some pictures, until i called her back.
So i tried Farah's method, competing with her to see who finished faster. At first, it worked, she did a question within 2 min. But after that, she gave up and do not want to compete anymore.
- Seeing her not able to focus, i taught her problem sums instead. I came up with question asking her to do. She later pushed it away, then told me that she don't want to do. Then it was after i asked her then she admit that she did not know how to do. So i came up with a similar but simplier question and taught her. Showing her another example, i asked her to do the next question i set. She is able to follow my first few steps, but after that she gave up again. So i taught her how to do and gave her another question. She felt bored most probably because she doesn't understand and does not know how to do, so she gave up again.
- i had to revise my steps so that it is clear for C to understand and apply it.
- i also had to come up with ways to make C listen to me instead of giving up. Such as acting sad and pitiful...
GamesIt was, noisy and exhausting when we conduct the station games.
The group is bigger. Like what Beryl had mention, it's hard to control the groups as some groups started fighting.
I guess i am not
forward looking thats why i 手忙脚乱。Don't know how i manage to hold on to the answer key, help them write marks, hand them question for them to choose, lend them my markers and paper and answer all their questions at the same time.
-From this, i learnt several things.
1) I had too high expectation for them.
I had a total of 14 questions when an average group could only do 3-4 in 5 minutes.
2) My questions was too tough.
Most of them could answer 2 marks question correctly with some of them able to answer 3 marks one. I had questions ranging from 1 to 5 marks.
3) There were a handful of students who are really weak in maths. We really need to do something about it. However there were also some who are quite good at it.
4) Their model drawings were quite weak. For example, there were 3 times more girls than boys. Girls must have 3 units while boys have 1 unit. most of them were able to draw it. However, 1 unit of boys
must be the same size as one unit of 1 unit of girls. 5) For number sequence, most of them only thought of addition. For example 3, 7, 11, 15, ?
they know that it is 19 as it is +4 to the next number. However, when i asked 1,4,9,16,?
they came up with
1, 1+3, 1+3+5,1+3+5+7,1+3+5+7+9=25
And it is right! even though what i'm thinking was 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5.
Thats basically all, i've learnt to talk to C . And will come up with ways to teach C model drawing and problem sums during the june holidays.
Labels: 5.21.08, sarah
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