Category: Blog
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The Tutor Is in The Construction Business
There is a strange way we talk about tuition. We say the tutor teaches Mathematics. Or English. Or Science. That sounds reasonable. But it also hides what the tutor is actually supposed to be doing. Because if teaching simply meant transferring information, the problem should already have been solved. There are textbooks. There are worksheets. There…
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Problems | Education | Reflective | Learning Skills Are Abstract But Buildable
I have been thinking about learning skills. Not Mathematics skills. Not English skills. Not Science skills. The skills underneath those skills. The things a learner does when they meet something they do not understand. And somewhere in the middle of thinking about this, I became slightly annoyed with the phrase: critical thinking skills. Yes. This is…
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Problems | Education | Reflective | Knowing Our Jobs
Sometimes the most obvious things are the easiest things to forget. An engineer engineers. A doctor heals. A teacher teaches. It sounds almost silly when I write it down. Of course a teacher teaches. What else would we be doing? But the longer I teach, the more I wonder whether we sometimes become so occupied…
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Problems | Education | Reflective | The Problem Becomes the Lesson
I have been thinking about something that happens almost every day when I teach. Every student seems to carry a different problem. One is fast, but careless. One understands today and somehow loses it next week. One takes much longer to form the idea. One reads well but cannot translate the words into Mathematics. Another…
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Problems | Education | Reflective | The Oddity of Giving One Lesson to Three Students
There is something slightly strange about teaching three students at the same time. I can give what appears to be the same lesson. Same topic. Same explanation. Same worksheet. Same ninety minutes. And three completely different things can happen. One student flies. They understand quickly, connect the idea to something they already know, complete the…
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Problems | Education | Reflective | The Oddity of Giving One Lesson to Three Students
There is something slightly strange about teaching three students at the same time. I can give what appears to be the same lesson. Same topic. Same explanation. Same worksheet. Same ninety minutes. And three completely different things can happen. One student flies. They understand quickly, connect the idea to something they already know, complete the…
eduKate Sengkang 