Wednesday 24 August 2011

Reflection on 24 Aug 08

Today Ms Peggy took our class, she was very enthuasiastic. She showed us three videos about Lesson studies. I found that instead of attending PDs when others come into our classroom and observe us and give us constructive feedback is a good way to improve on our teaching as we listen to see other people's point of view and perspective which can improve us.
The PCF teacher I found tried to teach more and less, her lessons were good as it was open ended but I personally felt she could have interacted more with the children on what they did with the their own paper plates. The second time round she was more aware of seating the children in a circle which was a good practice as everyone could view the teacher easily.
I particularly liked the Japanese video where the teacher is observed by a group of seniors and given feedback, they pointed out things like you shouldnt have given the answer to the children but allowed the children to come up and give the answer so that we will find out how they solve the problems, which is what Dr Yeap has been talking about, giving the children the decision making power, let them solve their own problems with our facilitation of course.

I learnt that inquiry method is like mathematical investigation with multiple solutions, divergent methods with different answers which actually gives us an insight into the children's thinking and enables us to learn their order of thinking. Which will be a good step as we would know how to plan for that child so that we can scaffold that child.

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