Mathematics is not an easy subject. If you feel math is difficult, then teaching math is more difficult. You have to transfer your knowledge, teaching step by step and the reason why you choose those steps, and make sure that your students understand. However, I didn’t see Sir Jordan has those difficulties during teaching mathematics in USHS 7th graders.
Starting by
making sure that all student is already seated in their chair, with their book
and stationaries on their table. Following by checking attendance. If someone
came late to his class, he would ask the reason. He said that it’ll make
student feels like their existence in classroom is important. After making sure
everyone is ready, he will start the teaching.
His class
is very interactive. He likes to ask a lot of questions to the students. He sometimes
asks some student to read aloud the PowerPoint. The students also very
cooperative. A lot of students raise their hand in every question Sir Jordan
give. And their answer usually true! It’s my first time seeing such an
interactive mathematics class. As long as I knew, students don’t like to answer
the questions that their teacher give, especially in mathematics. Only one or
two student who will answer all the question. But in his class, almost every
student participates actively.
Every time
a student answering his question, he doesn’t forget to give them appreciation. He
will ask the whole classroom to give applause due to their courage. Even though
the answer is not true, he still gives appreciation. It’s to make the students
understand that it’s not really important whether you give the right or wrong
answer. The most important is you have courage to raise your hand and say your
answer.
Sir Jordan
also likes to give everyone a chance. If he sees that the students that raise
their hand are already answering previous questions, he’ll ask another student
and give them chance to answer. If nobody wants to answer it, he’ll point out a
student and offer them to answer the question. It makes everyone in the
classroom feels important and included, not only the active or clever one.
Of course,
I learned a lot from my observation. I like how he includes every student in
his class. I also like how interactive his class is. I took a note of every
aspect that I think it’s good, and I would like to implement it in my teaching.
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