After watching two of Dr Dave Hewitt’s teaching videos, there are couple things that that I fell so impressed.
First, the method of Auditory teaching and learning is fascinating; it reveals the whole new method of mathematical teaching. When I first thought that auditory teaching can only be done in the subject area of music and language. However, in this video Dr Hewitt vividly demonstrates that it can also do so well in mathematical teaching. It connects the auditory input with student’s inner thought, which is somewhat similar to the mental math teaching strategy. And it can also very effective to get the attentions of all students in the classroom.
I really like the way that Dr Hewitt goes around the wall of the classroom, using forward and backward counting to give the students the concept of number line, and then leads to the minus number. It is very conceptual and natural. Clearly, it works really well in his grade 8 & grade 9 classes.
. However, I think the shortcoming of this teaching strategy is that it will require all students in the class have similar level of math learning skills. For students who need to see math problem visually, and just not an auditory type of learner, then great modifications and considerations need to done in order to reach the need s of these students.
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