For the past three weeks, I have taught the students about Probability. On the whole students were able to recap what they have learnt in chronological order, i.e. Simple Probability, Possibility Diagram, Mutually Exclusive events, Tree Diagrams, Independent and Dependent events. As the group is small I was able to teach the students better as some were slower than the rest. As the other students were doing their sums in their lesson package, I was able to sit with the slower ones and help them tackle some problems. Some of them fedback that I was too slow for them but I kept to the same pace as there were others who were not as fast as them. Had I gone faster this small group would be lost.
When I was away for two days for a course, I gave them extra work on Probability and informed them of the test that they were to sit for when I returned. They were very focused and worked hard on the paper even though some were not certain of the correctness of their answers. What I can say is that this group has a good attitude towards Maths and are able to perform if they are given more encouragement and more questions to stretch them further.
After giving a test on this topic I realise that four students were still not sure of this topic. Since two of them will not be in the SRP due to their curriculum in the afternoon, I woould see them on other days for a small group coaching. I would continue to motivate this group to work hard so that they are able to catch up with the rest.
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Heartening to hear that pupils are hardworking.
ReplyDeleteThey would do better with clearer outline of the content, skills and even attitudes that they will require in order to succeed. This 'map' could be given to them at the beginning of each topic so that they can chart their own progress.