Yesterday, on a whim, I tidied up my desk and bookshelf again and found these four books under a thick stack of books. There is even a lot of dust on the cover of the book "Interesting Math Homework", which was brushed away gently by my hand, and my heart was full of guilt. Make up your mind not only to finish reading this book completely these days, but also to write down reading notes in a down-to-earth manner.
Today, I read the first part of this book, "Pursuit: The Birth of Inquiry Math Homework" (P2-P22).
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Basic point: repeated fatigue
Teacher Liu reviewed her long-standing math homework mode, and the clearest feeling printed in her heart was one word-fatigue. In addition to class, almost all other time is spent on correcting homework-analyzing homework-correcting homework. Students are tightly wrapped in "homework", which occupies almost every spare time. Especially for children who have a little difficulty in learning, they participate in "paying" and "changing" all day.
Teachers have become "supervisors", suffering from homework approval, and the relationship between teachers and students is tense because of homework problems. The bad mood of every day seems to come from the repeated forgetting and avoiding homework of individual students. Teachers' daily teaching work is full of repeated fatigue and helplessness, but they can't find simple and effective ways to practice their children's favorite homework.
I feel the same way here. Plus two after-school tutorials, I have 15 classes a week. Indeed, as Mr. Liu said, I am either correcting my homework or grasping various revisions. Correcting the "learning method" of two classes requires at least two classes, and this "learning method" is based on only one page of homework. If there were more homework the day before, three classes would be easily occupied. In addition, there are at least two classes and more than three or four classes every day. The result is that there is no time to prepare lessons except correcting homework in class. If the school organizes large-scale activities or teaching and research activities, it is often necessary to use off-duty hours or weekend breaks to correct the homework of the day. How can it be so easy to be a teacher?
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Attempt: Diversification of operation forms and evaluation methods.
The change of heart makes Mr. Liu start to think: What kind of homework mode can not only help the implementation of "double basics", but also highlight students' initiative and develop students' personality? One is the reduction of batch operation, and the other is the operation of hierarchical operation.
Hierarchical homework, corresponding to the development of children's self-management ability and teamwork ability, is generally implemented in two levels, called daily homework and group weekly homework.
Do homework once a day, that is, calculate once a day (that is, complete two calculation problems, focusing on the consolidation of the foundation) and read once a day (ask children to open textbooks and read related examples and exercises every day). Children who have spare capacity for learning can read extra-curricular books on the basis of math books), one topic a day (the teacher copies a topic in the corner of the blackboard every day, and the children decide whether to do it or not. Those who do not do it will never be criticized, and the children who do it right can leave their names on the list).
The group relies on two relay books for weekly homework-the calculation relay book and the puzzle relay book. Notebooks are all big sketches, one in groups of four, and each group designs its own cover.
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Try again: Teachers and students write math diary.
Mr. Liu's general orientation of the mathematics exchange diary is to summarize the mathematics content he has taught, preview, review or reflect on the content of mathematics learning, and also write down his difficulties or interests in mathematics learning, as if he had a heart-to-heart conversation with himself.
Here, the link that impressed me the most is the exchange letter written by Teacher Liu to parents. Because it is the first time for children to come into contact with math diary, Mr. Liu stipulated the methods and steps of math preview and math diary's writing content in his letter. In this way, the interaction between home and school is gentle and firm, and it has won the support and cooperation of parents to the greatest extent.
Ms Liu uses math diary, who is also a blogger. She said that this not only meets the needs of some parents to understand the daily learning priorities of their children, but also makes them feel the ups and downs of teaching with me. More importantly, children can see the thoughts and ideas of their peers and teachers' comments on their peers. The benefits of this kind of interaction can't be carried by paper work.
Writing a diary of math communication between teachers and students soon brought some gratifying changes to students' study, teachers' teaching and teachers' feelings. First of all, in terms of students' learning, they should enhance their interest in reading and debating, encourage innovation in thinking and exploration, and think deeply in interaction and communication. In addition, as far as teachers' teaching is concerned, ① teaching reflection keeps "problem cases" and ② teaching reflection depicts "children's images".
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Birth: a gradually formed inquiry mathematics homework system
Although math diary can show students' individualized thinking, sometimes this unrestricted form will make students lose their scaffolding and have nothing to say. Teacher Liu is thinking about whether there is homework: not only pay attention to the cultivation of inquiry ability, but also consolidate basic knowledge and skills; It not only integrates the effective guidance of teachers, but also diverges thinking, opens personality and permeates mathematical thinking methods, and finally forms a more systematic homework system to guide students' development more effectively?
Through continuous practice, Ms. Liu has come to the conclusion that the inquiry math homework she wants to explore is designed according to the course content and students' characteristics, with the cultivation of students' mathematical inquiry ability as the core, targeted, thematic and exploratory math homework. This kind of homework needs to consider the following three problems: ① it smells like a child; (2) working together with teaching materials; ③ Maximize its function.