Which level of tutors you are?.

Lately, there has been a  YouTube video sharing on social networks depicting a  lecturer/professor demonstrating a lesson using real-virtual person interaction. Basically, the real “him” in the lecture room interacted with the pre-recorded video of the virtual “him” in a carefully designed scenario. You can tell that his students were really amused, and the international audience as well, more than 36k views. But if you watch the video, and unless he is demonstrating for his students how real-virtual interaction is done, there is not much learning taking place. View the video here

The 3 level of tutors.
Level 1
of thinking about teaching is concerned with what students ‘are’, also known as “blame the student’ approach to teaching and is “level one” of John Biggs’ three level of thinking about teaching. For him, assessment is a way to sort good students from the bad.

Level two
teacher is focused on the teacher. He is concerned with what the teacher does. From this perspective, there are “Good teachers” and “Bad teachers”. This perspective is also known as the “blame the teacher” perspective. A typical teacher at this level arms himself with tips and trick in teaching to activate but not engage students. One result of “level two” teacher is “passive students” where the teacher pours knowledge in their minds believing that their brains were empty vessels up till they enrolled in his/her class. One example of this type of teachers is the “entertaining teacher”, the one depicted in the video above. This second level teacher does not reach the level of understanding intended for the course.

The highest level teacher,
Level three, is more concerned with what “students do” before during and after teaching. This means he is particularly concerned with the learning outcome of the lesson/course and thus designs learning activities that are meaningful for the students. These learning activities are tightly aligned with the course objective and assessment. So, which level teacher are you? Think back to how you write your lesson/course objectives and how you design a learning environment to facilitate student learning in attaining the course outcomes. Think also on how the activities and objectives are aligned with the assessment stage, which could be formative and/or summative. Also, recall on what you focus during the design stage of your level and during teaching. Are you focusing on what you want to teach, deliver or on meaningful activities that help students make sense out of them?

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Little update for SPM

1. Seminar meeting on Thursday morning 11am (Only for LJ, KK and KB).
2. Coming Tuesday class (KB's class) will be taken by Geaps (temporary).
3. 4th March Extra class by ALL tutors, 10am to 1.30pm.
1. Please start informing all your students
2. For USJ 9, Kok Kin pls settle with LJ.
4. Coming Saturday Xiao Yuan's class:
1. Call all your students to ask if they are coming for seminar, and how many can replace on weekdays (Tuesday and Thursday)
2. Arrange for replacement for those who can't make it.
5. Next week start EFC for Form4 (Do first 2 chapters). Form 5 continue with the next 2 chapters of EFC (Straight Line & Sets).
6. Need a meeting after seminar to talk about loads of stuff. Suggest to do it right after our extra class. Things to talk:
1. Coming normal class notes. (Job separation)
1. Review Geaps & Xiao Yuan's notes.
2. Catch up with normal class performance, exchange opinions, etc.
3. Future plans (Technology-fy the rack, students boost, etc)
4. CLEAN THE RACK!!!!!

SPM Jan Week 3

Form 4
Quadratic teach everything. Just leave the Revision alone. I don't think u can do all of the exercises, so don't need to do everything la. But those that I've marked a star are important ones which I think should be discussed in class.

The In Class Practice after 2.4 got some circled one. If cannot finish ask them to do at home la.

Simply put:
2.1 Teach expansion (Method 1 method 2 no need demo, just ask them refer, cause' they have learnt in PMR dy)
2.2 Teach factorization (Format a), b), c) are PMR revision. focus more on d) and e). But e) usually use calculator one la)
2.3 I skipped cause' nothing to talk
2.4 Solve/Find the Roots/Find x. Ask them to copy the 4 steps. Notes not clear enough. (I got write in notes dy)

• Remove bracket/fraction
• Write equation in general form
• Factorize
• Solve

Those parts that I've highlighted, pls ask them to highlight also. Cause' the notes very luosuo so dun need to go thru everything one by one.


Form 5
Teach them to identify graph & shading. I got not enough time cause' I spent too long doing ICP with them. I let them do first then only discuss so not enough time. Depending on how long u teach them how to identify graph, if not enough time only do those I mark star de. Beside got write what to focus on.

Basically 2.1 keep repeat and tell them to know 3 + 1 things:

• Know 'a' (Go up or down stairs, smiley or sad face etc)
• Know 'c' y-intercept
• Know x-intercept (Especially quadratic - factorization)
• Substitute coordinates.

Next part is shading. I only managed to do Q1 and Q2 with them. Q2 got error,  y = 2x + 8, gradient should be negative. I think you know why.


Focus 2 things only:

• Shade up/down or left/right
• Dotted line or solid line

Basically Form5 focus more on explaning. So see how u explain to them only la. 



Tata,
Noobiak

Updated Slots

V3: Updated 15 Jan 2012

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Pls contact LJ if there's any problem with the slots. TQ.

SPM Rack Very Clean Jor!

Boon has spent TWO DAYS cleaning SPM rack. @.@

And then hor, actually a lot of papers on our rack are CLEAN paper. BOTH SIDES also never use before one lo. 

See! So thick! Cincai throw until some of them become kiam cai already. 

So now I have reorganized the rack, and each row is meant to put stuff that is under that category ONLY. Don't cincai put again pls. Arrange yi xia, put back where you take from. This wont take you more than a minute, but cleaning the rack will take HOURS.

1st Row - Random Stuff

2nd Row - Exercise Books (Topical, SPM Format Model, Past Year)

3rd Row - Textbooks & Reference Books & Some Useful Hardcopy Files

Last Row: BM Version Books & SPM Seminar 2011 Stuff

And haha, obviously the clean one is SPM de la, messy one...PMR ar, bila u all mahu clean ar? hahahah XD If want me clean faster ngai me. hahahaha XD

OK. Signing off,
Noobiak. XD

SPM Week 1

Form 4
1. Standard Form teach all. Leave only the revision for next week. (Maybe need to print more exercise cause not much ex. only. so if cannot finish do all exercise for this week leave to next week ba XD)

2. Standard Form 1<= A < 10 type wrong dy. Tell them to make ammendments TQ


Form 5
1. I teach the whole book jor. =.= Left Revision la. But Base 2 plus minus oso teach dy. >< Maybe 1 student only tak jadi chui shui so teach dao very fast. @.@ If you all got same problem next week we get more exercise for them la. TQ XD



Signing off,
Noobiak

PMR & SPM Slots 2012

(edited 5th Jan 2012)

Sorry ar I did SPM first then only PMR. hahahaha XD

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