Today we're fortunate to have two visitors, math teachers in completely
different cultures (ILEP -- International Leaders in Education Program
-- fellows at NKU):
- Glendale Lamiseria, from the Philippines (teaching Mathematics for
13 years to high school students in a public school located in a rural
area; teaches Geometry (3rd year HS) and Advance Algebra (4th Year HS).
- Emmanuel, from South Africa
Each will begin by giving a little overview of his/her situation -- for example,
- what kinds of schools do you teach in? Rural or Urban? Private or Public?
- How long have you taught?
- What courses do you teach?
- What are the career objectives of your students?
- What kinds of extra-curricular activities do your students engage in?
Then they will address the questions that we wrote for them last time (and
hopefully some more, but this is a good start!;):
- What is the structure of a school day?
- What is the biggest struggle in your classroom?
- What kinds of technology do you use in the classroom?
- Are students "tracked" in your system? (That is, some are destined for engineering, some for business, etc., and so their classes are designed for those areas.)
- How does culture and/or environment (in the broad sense -- e.g. natural, political, etc.) affect your classroom?
- What are your favorite things about teaching?
- When did you know that you wanted to teach math?
Then we'll open it up for additional questions.