介入拉近學生成績差距
在美國有超過20年教學經驗的小學老師 王劉曼瑛女仕被邀請在11月15日舉行的院長茶會上分享她的專業知識和教育經驗。“介入拉近學生成績差距”是本次的主題, 有17位教育學院的紹邦同學參加。
王太太在過去的二十多年裡，一直在美國為低收入家庭而設的公立小學中任教，學生大多數來自離婚的非裔美國家庭。
分享首先介紹了美國低收入家庭公立學校系統的運作模式，特別當教師幫助貧困學生時, 應該注意甚麼。然後她把注意力轉移到班內拉近成績差距的基本技能上。她指出，對學生有同理心和關愛比傳授知識更為重要。
在學科教導上，她介紹了各種教授英語閱讀和數學的技巧和方法。最後，王太講解以具體行為描述來激勵，提醒和指導學生的重要性。到場的同學都穫益良多。
Introducing Interventions to Bridge Academic Achievement Gap
Elementary school teacher Amy Wong, with over 20 years of teaching experience in the United States, was invited to share her professional expertise in the Master Tea gathering held on November 15. A total of 17 SPCers from the Faculty of Education came to learn from the speaker on the topic of “Introducing Intervention to Cut Academic Achievement Gap”.
In the past 20 plus years, Mrs. Wong has been teaching students from low income families, mostly African American families with divorce history, in the public elementary school.
Mrs. Wong first introduced how the public school system for low income family in United States works and what a teacher should be mindful of in providing assistance to underprivileged students. Then she brought participants’ attention to the essential skills of bridging the academic gap. She pointed out that being empathic and caring for students is more important than passing on to them knowledge.
On academic subject teaching, she introduced various techniques and approaches of teaching English reading and mathematics. Lastly, Mrs. Wong explained the importance of being specific in motivating, reminding and instructing students to behave properly. Participating students indicated that they learned a lot from this talk.
Master Leung introducing speaker’s teaching experience in United States
院長在介紹講員在美國的教學經驗
Speaker explaining the importance of being empathetic and caring for students
講員講解對學生有同理心和關愛的重要性