J-Term Day 2
January 8, 2020
Day 2
Today I helped kids work with factors and I again I expected too much of them. I keep on just assuming that they know things, such as division and that ends up turning around on me when halfway through the lesson they finally made it clear to me that they didn’t know division. The kids today took far longer to teach due to no fault of their own but just because I could not figure out how to explain factors to them AT ALL. I never realized how difficult of a task it is for teachers to explain things to students and how hard it is to even begin to explain even semi complex topics without visual aids. All this did was further my appreciation for the materials that they use in Montessori mathematics and honestly I am now equally amazed and disappointed in my old school. I am amazed that they managed to get kids to sort of understand math without these incredibly helpful materials, but I am also disappointed that they don’t use the materials that they use here. I have been improving in my teaching and the kids are now much better at understanding whenever I try to explain because of how much time I’ve spent trying to explain this subject. I hope that when I come back from my “lunch break thing” I will be able to help kids out more than I was able to in the morning. I am really liking my idea to sort of join the Art of Cooking group and I am excited to see where the rest of the day goes. Unfortunately after lunch I barely was able to spend any time with the kids buuut it was enough time for me to finish up working with the students that I had to stop working with due to being interrupted by lunch. After lunch I finally got really good at explaining how to do things in a super clear way which was great but also SO sad because I felt bad for the other kids that had previously struggled due to my inability to explain. Overall it was a good day and I’m very excited for tomorrow. I believe I fulfilled Learning Outcome 1 (Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth.) through this process. I have learned what areas I perform well in as a teacher and where I struggle. After finding these weaknesses I worked through them with the kids and improved my ability to explain things to them dramatically. I believe that this fits the requirements of Service because I was doing it in order to gain an understanding of how to help kids learn.
Day 2
Today I helped kids work with factors and I again I expected too much of them. I keep on just assuming that they know things, such as division and that ends up turning around on me when halfway through the lesson they finally made it clear to me that they didn’t know division. The kids today took far longer to teach due to no fault of their own but just because I could not figure out how to explain factors to them AT ALL. I never realized how difficult of a task it is for teachers to explain things to students and how hard it is to even begin to explain even semi complex topics without visual aids. All this did was further my appreciation for the materials that they use in Montessori mathematics and honestly I am now equally amazed and disappointed in my old school. I am amazed that they managed to get kids to sort of understand math without these incredibly helpful materials, but I am also disappointed that they don’t use the materials that they use here. I have been improving in my teaching and the kids are now much better at understanding whenever I try to explain because of how much time I’ve spent trying to explain this subject. I hope that when I come back from my “lunch break thing” I will be able to help kids out more than I was able to in the morning. I am really liking my idea to sort of join the Art of Cooking group and I am excited to see where the rest of the day goes. Unfortunately after lunch I barely was able to spend any time with the kids buuut it was enough time for me to finish up working with the students that I had to stop working with due to being interrupted by lunch. After lunch I finally got really good at explaining how to do things in a super clear way which was great but also SO sad because I felt bad for the other kids that had previously struggled due to my inability to explain. Overall it was a good day and I’m very excited for tomorrow. I believe I fulfilled Learning Outcome 1 (Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth.) through this process. I have learned what areas I perform well in as a teacher and where I struggle. After finding these weaknesses I worked through them with the kids and improved my ability to explain things to them dramatically. I believe that this fits the requirements of Service because I was doing it in order to gain an understanding of how to help kids learn.
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