From 2nd
of January, 2012 I was teaching and engaging with the students’ works. With in
these short period when I work with students of grade 7B class of school, I
noticed that some students refused the mathematics period. At the beginnings,
some students always tried to disturb my lesson. Not only when I came to the
class they made big noises like these. Some students directly told “I can not
teacher, We can’t maths, mathematics is difficult, We got low marks for mathematics”.
As well as I noticed some students didn’t participate actively with the lesson.
They tried to be a side. They did other thing. But within my ICT period they
were not show like these behavior. As a result of that , It is difficult for
them learning mathematics. Because of this I am also unable to create a good
learning teaching environment in the class room. I couldn’t achieve the
objectives of the taught lessons. I felt that only few students got an idea and
understood the lessons that I taught.
During this period I got
the opportunity to correct their mathematics paper of the first term test and
there were very low marks for the particular group of student which I mention
above. While engaging with the curriculum these student show very low
performance and need my special attention and help to them. In every day When I was going to the
class room always I had to go to those student and repeat every things that I
taught to the class. So this was a problem and also a special disadvantage for
the other student in the class room.
I
checked their books. Those students hadn’t write note in their writing books.
They hadn’t solved the problems I have given. Their handwriting also didn’t
clear. After that day I paid my special attention to wards those students. Then
I could identify that those students haven’t knowledge regarding the basic
mathematical operations.
I discuss
with the other mathematics teachers. Then
they have faced such a problems and they told that this problems will be
arise a result of following problems.
Ø
Teacher use only lecture method for teaching
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Teacher don’t use simple method for teaching
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Mathematics is a easy subject but teaching is
going on traditional way.
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Provide less motivation
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Less attention for student
Ø
Not use day today experiences for learning
teaching process
As a teacher trainee I had to
maintain a reflective journal to record experiences in my learning teaching
process. In this journal I had mention about above problem in few places. Then
I observed that there were some problems. It was some students were always
disturb my lesson and they make noises when I came to the class. Also some
students were didn’t give answers for questions, they didn’t do home work as
well as they didn’t engage the lesson actively. They show these behavior on my
mathematics period. I had to waste time on behalf of these students. Therefore
I couldn’t do the lessons on time and successfully. So I selected developing
basic mathematical knowledge those who don’t like and weak for mathematics.
After
identify that problem by observing reflective journal I decided to use test,
observation, discussion methods for clarify the that problem and identify the
target group.
In
observation method I observed students activity in my lesson at Grade 7 B. I
tried to observe students following criteria.
Ø
Participating of class room activity.
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Doing home work.
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Giving answer of questions.
Ø
Working speed of the students
Through this
Action Research, I have noticed some important points. Most of students did not
engage in class room activities till I motivate them. So I should pay more
attention towards those types of students rather than quick learners. It is
better if those students are mixed up with the active students at least in
group work.
And there
were some slow working students. Even they have the ability to do the works
they take some time to finish it. So it is the teacher’s duty to give more time
to them, while giving extra work for the bright students. But some time slow
workers copy from bright students books.
I could
confirm through this observation the selected students who A,B,C,D,E were not
in satisfactory level in education and their participation was minimum for
learning teaching process as well as homework. The group of those students
didn’t need to participated for the group activities.
The discussion is
important method that I followed to gather information, about the selected
students. I tried to find the reasons for this situation in discussion and also
I gave them bio data sheet (Annex 01). I could get more information about my
target group. I extract following details.
Student A
He lives near
to the school. There are six members in his family. His father works at tea
factory. His parents are not educated. His elder brother is not at home. He is
with their grandparents. He said he has not any one to help him to do home
work. He has a less eager for learning and attending school.
Student B
She lives at
Walawkade. There are five members in her family with her. Her father has a
boutique. Mother does not work. She said some time her sisters checked her
books and help her to doing home work. She is some what good for other
subjects.
Student C
She lives in Walawkade.
There are six members in her family. Her father is a labour. Mother does not
work. Her one brother is a monk. Her family also has a poor back ground.
Student D
He also live in
Walawkade. There are seven members in his family. His father is a .He has three
brothers and one sister. Sister works at garment. He also said his books is nit
checking any one.
Student E
He live near the
school. His family has six members. His father works in tea garden. Mother also
plucking tea. He has elder sister in grade 10 at same school. He said she help
him to do home work. He is some what good for maths than others in my action
research.
According subject teachers these students were weak in
their subject and they hadn’t basic knowledge regarding basic mathematical
operations such as addition and subtraction. That students’ participation for
the lesson was minimum. But previous mathematics teachers hadn’t got any action
to solve this problem. Then I confirmed that I should intervene to this
problem.
I used the records of the first term
test marks. Through this test mark I identified the weak students for the
mathematics subject. After check the test marks I confirm that above 5 students
need the help of the teachers to develop.
According to
these I used observation, Test, discussion for identify the my target group.
After identify the problem I started my intervention step. I used various
learning teaching methods, group activities, practicals. Through these steps I
could motivate them for subtracting
numbers. Then they engaged actively with learning. Finally I hope to give test
and held observation. Then I could evaluate the progress of students. After
doing all these, I hope to develop one of basic mathematical knowledge is
subtracting numbers among students.
I
collected the information regarding the students’ knowledge about the basic
mathematical operations such as subtraction.
Then I identified that few of the students need help to improve their
level. Considering the above methods I came to
the following conclusion.
It is the teacher’s duty to motivate the student and let
them see the importance of learning mathematics. In subtract, the teacher should not let the
students feel bored during lessons. We have to indicate them that learning
subtraction is fun and let them realize that when we learn more concepts it
will be easy to handle the subject Mathematics.
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