Lecture on how to develop teaching materials in mathematics and how to develop as a teacher.
Professor was Hannu Markkula. The theme was this semester lectures was “Teacher as examiner of her/his work”.
There were 31 students the class; 10 males, 21 females. It’s interesting, always more females than males in all the education classes.
Today’s lecture: Time management for Beginning Teachers and Engagement in Diagnostics
First we watch and inspirational video; youtube.com/watch?v=AkKtQeEQNhM
Notes on video:
-The teacher writes lesson plan on the board and practices it before he presents it to his students
-Fill in the planks problem solving. 5 ways to solve if answer is 5, three ways if answer is 3. Must be a three-digit subtraction.
-Students must discover the rules. Other teachers watched the lecture. -Then they had a math teachers meeting where everyone gave an opinion.
It was a teaching moment. This is a must video for all the math teachers!
The instructor, Hannu was friendly with good sense of humor. The lecture was interesting, engaging. After the video students discussed the video with a partner and then with the whole class.
-communication between teachers
-problem solving in math
-teacher first practice by himself, then presented to colleagues, then to bigger audience
-manipulative materials on the board
Professor's idea was that each year every teacher must develop one good unit in mathematics and then share it with colleagues. This way in a long run there will be many lesson plans to choose from.
In Finland teachers are paid only for hours they teach. No compensation for planning or grading.
Next, he gave a Power Point Presentation on how to structure a classroom. This ppt was developed by Peter Liljenthal. The ling below shows his vision how a class should be conducted.
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| Slide from Perer's PPT. |
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| Summary of Peter´s findings |
Next the instructor talked about action research. His slides were in English. Teacher as a researcher or practitioner. The idea was to choose a topic where you think you can make a difference, change for better.
