Friday, August 16, 2013

Art of Effective Communication in Primary Mathematics Classroom

OEIR - Mr Huang Ai Hua

- focus on professional training and pd
- effective communication is to satisfy the listeners' mental needs
- 3 pain points:
knowledge beyond understanding of the students
no new approach to communicate

Apply the Art of Communication in the teaching and learning of Mathematics
- begin with praises (focus on human nature)

Showing empathy - using fingers to form the word 'ren' (human)
As maths teachers, we have studied maths, teach maths, mark maths, set maths tests, attend pd maths but our students have very little foundation and experience

The Ron Clark Story - The Triumph

How many questions have you asked in 30 mins

-rather than broad and shallow, better to be few but cause them to think deeply

Big question thinking
e.g. learning circles, why are manhole covers round, using 4 numbers to make 24

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