Just thought i'd explain the photo! The teacher was trying to teach long division to a class of 50 students with little success. After painfully observing the failed lesson for an hour Lizzie & I were convinced we could have more success so the following lesson, when the teacher was absent, we decided to try and teach the subject. Amazingly with only knowing the numbers in swahili and the 4 words in the photo as well as some other useful vocab picked up during our time in Tanzania we mangaged to successfully teach the majority of the children, who had virtually no knowledge of English, how to do long division.
The difference in our teaching methods was obvious. The teacher set the children 10 questions. On completion of the questions they were marked, usually all wrong. What has the child learnt? Nothing.
We went for the more interactive approach. By bringing children up to the board and helping them when they go wrong so they all learn how to do it before being set an exercise.
Language isn't a barrier when teaching simple maths!
Does this suggest something is wrong with the teaching methods used by the teacher and indeed most other teachers i saw?
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Just thought i'd explain the photo! The teacher was trying to teach long division to a class of 50 students with little success. After painfully observing the failed lesson for an hour Lizzie & I were convinced we could have more success so the following lesson, when the teacher was absent, we decided to try and teach the subject. Amazingly with only knowing the numbers in swahili and the 4 words in the photo as well as some other useful vocab picked up during our time in Tanzania we mangaged to successfully teach the majority of the children, who had virtually no knowledge of English, how to do long division.
The difference in our teaching methods was obvious. The teacher set the children 10 questions. On completion of the questions they were marked, usually all wrong. What has the child learnt? Nothing.
We went for the more interactive approach. By bringing children up to the board and helping them when they go wrong so they all learn how to do it before being set an exercise.
Language isn't a barrier when teaching simple maths!
Does this suggest something is wrong with the teaching methods used by the teacher and indeed most other teachers i saw?
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