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| Volume 9, Number 15 | April 12, 2002 |
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Student-teachers take math lessons to local schools
On March 8 and 15, 200 U of S Education students carried out a ‘math invasion’ of four Saskatoon elementary schools – and the results pleased everyone. Assist. Prof. of Curriculum Studies Florence Glanfield says she and Sessional Lecturers Jim Baker, Alice Hanlon, and Derek Punshon worked with teachers at Wildwood, Egnatoff, Georges Vanier, and Father Vachon Schools to have 200 of the University’s student-teachers visit the schools and teach math lessons to groups of 12-15 young students. The U of S students worked in groups of three to plan and deliver their lessons, and then assess how things worked out. Glanfield and her students think the practical experience is a great new addition to their training. Until now, student-teachers do visit schools, but most of their practice-teaching is either to their fellow University students or to small groups of elementary school students who visit the College of Education. “It’s one thing to write a lesson and imagine how it’s going to work, but to write one and actually apply it was a great learning experience,” says student-teacher Kim Deline. Glanfield says she had a number of goals for the “Celebrating Mathematics in Saskatoon Schools” event. “We wanted to give our students the chance to teach math lessons – and we asked them to prepare lessons for kindergarten-Grade 1, Grades 2-3, and Grades 4-5. They learned about teaching and about what students at those ages know about math.” She adds, “We also wanted to promote math education in the schools” – and she thinks it worked. She has gotten tremendous feedback from teachers, who tell her they also learned by watching their students being taught by someone else.
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