To put it simply, what the math explanation group does is to gather a group of children according to the voluntary registration and determine some topics every week, which often come from this weekend's homework. The children explain these topics, and I will review them one by one. After reviewing, I will send them to all the students to watch.
After a year of practice, I gradually formed some of my own systems.
Next, I try to use a few pages to talk about my thoughts on this year's math explanation group.
This train of thought is divided into three parts.
In the second volume of Senior Two, in fact, many videos were recorded by myself. I recorded many micro-lessons for the children in my class. The children just listen to my micro-lessons and finish my homework. In such a process of listening to me, most children are just passive learners. Only input, no active output.
By this semester, my mind has changed. I originally recorded it, but now it's recorded by the children themselves. Once recorded by themselves, children themselves have to spend some time studying and explaining their ideas. This is an active retrieval learning. In the words of the recently popular learning book Cognitive Nature, this is called refinement, that is, being able to restate a knowledge in one's own language. This kind of meticulous study will be more challenging than just listening to me before. Once learning has certain challenges, children's grasp of learning results will be more firm.
The video is completed by the children themselves, which is also linked at home and school. I used to record micro-courses myself, and I recorded audits myself. All the links can be done by yourself. It's different now. If children want to record videos, parents also need to participate in polishing. At the very least, we must ensure that the result of this topic will not be wrong. Doing well may help children think about how to speak, and other students will listen more clearly. Before each video is pushed to other students, I will review it. If there is something wrong with the video, I will make suggestions for modification. Such a review and revision process is actually a kind of home-school interaction.
In fact, I have been struggling with the content of the explanation for a long time. At first, I wanted the children to explain the important knowledge points or error-prone points this week. However, it is found that parents have a great demand for weekend homework guidance. Many parents have a headache to help with their weekend homework, and some are unable to do so. Based on this situation, I decided to make an explanation at the weekend, just to explain the topic of this week's math homework.
These topics are not chosen at random. On the one hand, these topics must be the core knowledge points that students must master, and these knowledge points must be passed by everyone. On the other hand, there are some variations or improvements in these topics, which are a bit difficult and difficult for parents to coach.
On the content of the explanation, my focus is on thinking about the pain points of our parents' tutoring weekend homework. Although we didn't explain everything clearly, at least we helped parents grasp the core topic.
In one year's practice, the children's explanation gradually has its own unique characteristics.
The child's explanation has a fixed process. First, they said a few words of self-introduction or welcome, and some children explained their names for their videos. For example, Yang named his math explanation happy micro-classroom, which created an atmosphere or situation for the explanation.
Then there is the specific explanation process. Because our explanation is limited in time (within 3 minutes), children need to master the main points in the shortest time, and the logic of explanation should be very clear. Now the process of children's explanation is very similar, that is, with the help of intuitive models, such as drawing line segments, or simply demonstrating directly. This is a very good way to present, so that children's explanations are no longer dry, but concrete and sensible. More importantly, the addition of intuitive models has increased other children's interest in watching videos. More importantly, the addition of intuitive models greatly reduces the difficulty for children to explain the content. Once the difficulty is reduced, the video will be watched by the whole people.
Let's call it a day. Next time, we will write the push form of our video.