AEIS, English and Maths

Date: 20/05/2009

Day: Wednesday

Students present: Michael, Henry, William, Susan

Students absent: Noe Noe

Teacher (main and assistants): Lim Young

Subject: English and Maths

Topic: Nouns Test and Real Numbers

Teaching process

Concepts taught: Conducted an English test on nouns, based largely on what I thought them yesterday. I injected the atmosphere of a test format that requires them to sit away from each other and talking was strictly prohibited. This prepares them for the exam mentality.

After the break, they were asked to do a Maths assignment. It consists of 6 word problems that they have to do, based largely on the requirements I set for them during the previous Maths lesson. They were introduced to the method of modelling for word problems and the students liked it a lot. They find it particularly useful

Example questions gone through: Exercise 3e Q1

Practice questions given: Exercise 3e

Post-teaching

General comments of students: Results of the english test are as follow.

Henry: 40/47
Michael: 32/47
Susan: 30/47
William: 4/47

Improvement points of students: I am very worried about William as through the test, he has not shown me that he has understood what I thought in class, despite repetitive reminders given to them to clear their doubts with me when in lessons. From the results, we can see that William is very far behind his siblings, all of whom sat through the same lesson.

William has also told me that he has a lack of interest to study English. He finds it very draining. He needs to improve on his attention span in class as he tends to drift off very easily. I will monitor him closely in terms of his English.

The rest are generally fine.

Homework given (including due date): Nil