Be vigilant

Dear reader,

In a recent observation of my lesson, my mentor pointed out that I tended to ignore the back of my class in my teaching. This resulted in students doodling, reading storybooks or even folding paper aeroplanes!

To combat this problem, I am determined to walk around the classroom more often, with special attention to the back of the class. To be honest, I was a little disappointed with my class, especially since this is my second year with them. Nevertheless, I am determined to be more aware in class.

Thanks for reading!

Thinking aloud

Dear reader,

In the recent Skillful Teacher course, I learnt the importance of leading by example. Often we even need to model them how to think about handling the questions.

In this version of modelling we are encouraged to do the following:

1) Not to entertain any questions from the floor during the process

2) To show resilience in our thinking

3) To deliberately make mistakes and show alternative steps

4) To show every step of the solution

That's all I want to share for now.

Regards,
Reuben