Posted to Facebook on 4/9/2019 at 12:25 PM
A failure is one who is not prepared to fix their problems
Each week, the Year 4 class teacher allocates me groups of students who have learning or understanding difficulty in mathematics. I mean I tackle one group at a time.
I explain the question or problem in the simplest possible way and show them examples in order to make them understand or realise their mistakes. They have to fix the mistakes themselves without further clue.
A week ago, I had a student who cried and kept saying she was a failure because she could not do the question correctly. The student cries whenever she is under stress, not only in mathematics class, but also in other subjects too.
After calming her down, helping her understand, and watching her corrected her mistake, I said to her she had to remember for good what I said. I wanted her to repeat exactly what I said:
”Mr Chan says:
I am not going to cry in class again
I am not a failure
I WILL succeed!”
A failure is one who is not prepared to fix their problems themselves or seeks help/advice from others to have the problem solved.
Thank you for reading.
A failure is one who is not prepared to fix their problems
Each week, the Year 4 class teacher allocates me groups of students who have learning or understanding difficulty in mathematics. I mean I tackle one group at a time.
I explain the question or problem in the simplest possible way and show them examples in order to make them understand or realise their mistakes. They have to fix the mistakes themselves without further clue.
A week ago, I had a student who cried and kept saying she was a failure because she could not do the question correctly. The student cries whenever she is under stress, not only in mathematics class, but also in other subjects too.
After calming her down, helping her understand, and watching her corrected her mistake, I said to her she had to remember for good what I said. I wanted her to repeat exactly what I said:
”Mr Chan says:
I am not going to cry in class again
I am not a failure
I WILL succeed!”
A failure is one who is not prepared to fix their problems themselves or seeks help/advice from others to have the problem solved.
Thank you for reading.
