My Story - A day with the Prep, Year 4 and Year 5 students
Never I felt so good before. The teachers were so pleased to see me back to help in their classes.
The Prep students learnt Skip Counting using a calculator. They also learnt grouping.
For the second exercise, a small group of students exhibited much stronger cognitive ability by grouping objects by shapes, sizes, thickness, etc instead of colours. Grouping by colours is the simplest and most obvious method used by the rest of the students.
In Year 5, the students learnt function rule, and algebra. In Year 4, the students learnt multiplication of three digits by two digits, with some exercises involved decimals.
I can see a better way to teach the students more efficiently and effectively, but my hands are tied. I am not a teacher, but just to help out.
Many people, including the students, are not good at identifying their shortcomings, and therefore they have problems identifying problems. Without knowing what the problem is, there is no way to remove the hurdle to have a smooth run in the future.
Thank you for reading.