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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
World Class Maths: Asian Teaching Practice
Macmillan Education
This online course was an introduction to Asian maths teaching practice for primary education. Topics covered included the key features of Asian classrooms and maths pedagogies; understanding three key principles (Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract approach, the Bar Model method and Shanghai’s Teaching with Variation) with a range of examples and tasks; and how to put these principles into practice by reflecting on how you could use them in your classroom.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Christian Bokhove
Associate Professor of Maths Education, Southampton Education School
Macmillan Education
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise the key features of Asian maths classrooms and teaching methods.
- Reflect on your own maths education and your country’s national performance in maths compared with Asian countries.
- Model Asian teaching methods through staged tasks and exercises.
- Develop the expertise to put these methods into practice in your teaching.
Syllabus
- An overview of the key features of Asian classrooms and maths pedagogies.
- Understanding established principles with a range of examples and practices from Singapore teaching methods, including the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract approach and the Bar Model method.
- Understanding another Asian principle, Shanghai’s Teaching with Variation, with a range of examples and practices.
- Put these principles into practice with a range of exercises and tasks, and reflect on how you can use them in your classroom.
Issued on 28th December 2020
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