During the last enGasia project meeting delegates from Japan and Hong Kong visited a secondary school for half a day. We were warmly greeted by Oasis Academy Mayfield. We asked representatives from both Hong Kong and Japan to write a short paragraph about their visit.
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Hong Kong: Allen Leung and Ida Mok
Entering the modern school building, we were welcome warmly by a senior staff and were introduced to the mathematics coordinator and teachers who showed us to join several mathematics lessons. We were provided opportunity to visit all mathematics lessons for different grades with a range of ongoing activities, group work, exploratory, game, exercise and practice and plenary. From the opportunity to share with the teachers, we learned that they paid much attention to students’ individual academic needs and capacity, raising students’ motivation and teachers always organize mathematics activities related to daily life application and interesting topics. Overall, we are very much impressed by the excellent professional morale of the teachers and warm hospitality.
Our Japanese guests in the classroom
Japan: Mikio Miyazaki and others
We visited at Oasis academy Mayfield on 24/3/2016. This school has their responsibility to provide the highest standards of teaching and learning, enabling students to achieve their very best, preparing them for life in the 21st century. We could get a chance to observe three math lessons. One of them was a standard lesson and the others were supplemental lessons for future examinations. The teachers properly promoted their lessons by making good full use of the digital textbooks and the facilities in classroom (such as built-in projector). Especially, the standard lesson was basically according to Problem Based Learning (that is, problem assigned, identify what is needed to know, and learn/apply it to solve the problem). But it included neither the stage for making a plan how to solve the problem, nor the stage for looking back students’ own solution. In Japan it is widely considered essential that these aspects should be included in a lesson according to Problem Based Learning.
Posted By : Christian Bokhove