Session 3 – (24th August 2011)
This was our 3rd session. Our guest lecturer Miss Peggy Foo took us for this session. She showed us a video of a teacher conducting a lesson with a group of kids. We observed and noted down areas where we could reflect on such as, seating arrangement, engagement/involvement, classroom management, manipulatives and use of materials, sequence of lesson, progression of lesson and whether was the lesson coherent? As I sat there observing this video, I thought of how important it is for ourselves as teachers to do this kind of reflection on our teaching. We could always get a colleague to video tape us and learn how to improve and what to change. It helps to hear people’s views and although nobody likes to be observed and discuss teaching styles, doing this will help the teacher grow and also her colleagues will benefit too and learn from it.
We also were taught and reminded to look for evidences of differentiated learning, which is important as not all students learn the same way.
The 2nd video was Peggy’s video where it was her first time teaching K1’s.
We learnt a lot from her video and I guess she too. I must mention she was quite brave to show her video to the class. At the end of the video, we learnt that a teacher must act as a facilitator and observe the kids, listen for children’s reasoning, ask questions to lead children to THINK, ask questions, LOOKING/LISTENING and LEADING THEM! J
Last but not least, I really enjoyed the tangram activity which helps one to visualize!
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| Tangram -Can you VISUALIZE |
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