Case Study With Ms Peggy! Oh it rhymes!

Today, we were given 3 case studies on Lesson Study. Two of which was on a teacher teaching concept of “more than” and “less than”.  The second lesson, the teacher did much better taking into consideration some of the pointers given during post lesson discussion.

After watching the videos, we had to come out with a strength and an area of which she has to improve on. From our findings, we categorized them into different aspects of lesson implementation:

1)      Sitting arrangement

2)      Level of engagement / involvement

3)      Use of materials / manipulative

4)      Flow / sequence of lesson

5)      Classroom management

6)      Communication (teacher:pupil, pupil:pupil)

7)      Questioning techniques (no. of qn,types of qn, waiting time given)

8)      Disposition

9)      Differentiation

Case study 2 was Ms Peggy herself who did number conservation with the K1 children. Impressive I might say, for a first timer teaching the younger ones! She looked so enthusiastic and animated, trying to capture the children’s attention and digging out the answers to match her objective. Hehe

My key take-away for these case studies was the fruitful sharing of how we can create differentiated learning for children with higher or lower ability. It is truly difficult for teachers to come out with differentiated lessons to meet individual needs of children. So, I feel that this is a good way to create the awareness of coming out with differentiated learning in a lesson itself.

We had BRAIN GAME with 5 unifix cubes.

Each group was supposed to create as many unique structures with 5 unifix cubes. Competition was tight!!! Everyone had the pegs in mind! Haha. Anyway, my group did our best, but did not quite get the most number. We were very close to getting the highest number, 25. Nonetheless, we had fun! Really!

Ms Peggy also talked about how lesson study is important and aligned with some SPARK criterion. How great! With this implementations going on, it’s like killing two birds with one stone;

helping the teachers to be engaged in examining their practices to provide the best for the children and also meeting the SPARK criterion.

Lastly, we got our quiz! Super challenging! It is easy when the question is posted to you….. But when you are the one creating the word problem with the given sum, that’s the

BIG PROBLEM. However, I tried, so we will see! HAHA

Homework of the day: Activity for Visualization using Tangram.

Good luck to me in figuring out!