Group report for Interviews.

Sep 27,2009.
Group Report for Interviews.
We were two members.Mrs.Darshan and me.We planned to meet two different teachers and two students. we selected five questions to ask form both teachers and students.all those questions we asked during our actual meetings with our teachers and students were not only those selectedd five, but we asked them many other related questions .which gave us knowledge about high school teaching and learning process.Which we feel that is very important aspect of teaching prfession .Because teaching itself is a learning process and we always learn from two different type of experiences.One of them is our own and the other is in the forms of following answers which we get from others' experiences.
First important question which we asked from two teachers was
1 Is it possible to relate all topics in math to technology ?
The answere which we got, made us able to understand that in Mathematics we can add technology to most of the topics, but not for all .All topics can't be teach with movies,pictures or by other helping aids. Most of the time teachers feels bounded for meeting the requirements of provincial exams,and finishinng curriculam in time doesn't allow to adopt other methods of teaching except instrumental.
2. How do you compare teaching math with teaching of other subjects ?
.One of the teachers was a math specialists and other was physics specialists.So the teacher with math as a math major said that teaching math for him is very enjoyable activity and he feels that he can inspire better his students while teaching math in place of other subjects.The other who was having physics as a major explained that during teaching science he can use more audio visual aids than the aids he uses for maths.
Hence we learnt that teaching techniques mostly are concerned to subject matter to taught and also the knowledge of that particular topic.Limited knowledge can also restrict teachers for selecting different methods of teachings.
The questions which we asked from the high school students were also very informative and inspiring. One of our students' favourite subject was also math. Firstly, we asked them about their experiences with their math teachers. And their replies for this question made us aware of the things that students notice for the patience of teachers . She Said " some teachers are very good and explains the topics until we don't understand.They explains all terms and formulas step by step.Like my current teacher explains all terms by linkinng them to each other".She also told about her previous teacher that "her method was not good, she stayed busy with the board only for the whole year and never made intractions with students.
This means that students want to interact directly with the teacher, they don't like those teachers which explains whole concept using board .So they need some different methodology which gives them ways of making intractions with the whole team during their learning.
Secondly we asked about curriculum.The mixed respons of both the students was that some topics they really like to do and some topics are there in the curriculum which they don't feel easy.Which gives information of diversity in learning and special needs of different students.
Third question was for knowing the methodology, their teachers are using at present.
One of them replied that " Our math teacher first introduces the topic then she tells us what we have to learn from it, and then she explains all steps . somtimes we do disscussions in groups but not all the times . In other subjects we do more works in groups".
This reflects to us that most of the teachers using instructional methods .

Hence overall our work for getting information from different teachers and students made us aware of many things related to methodology, curriculum, diversity in learning and different strategies of teaching maths.Which I must say, is very important to be a successful learner and a teacher.