Helpful note

The computers at the school have a few educational videos. Bring your external drive and download them to your own machine.

1/9 Preformance Review May 26. 2011

Two challenges are present with the class. To begin with students in 1/9 do not always know how to write their English Nick name on thier papers. This makes assessment impossible for those students. Perhaps some class time will have to be used in the future to make sure all students can write thier nick names and a classroom resource or refrence book will have to be made for those who can only dimly remember their English nick name. Students here can write their nick name so I will give them more space for an assessment.

Athen-- More pratice writing letters. Work looks rushed and cannot properly form the letter A in "balls". Numeric values in the cups correct but does not understand or care to estimate the size of the balls to "fill" the cup with them as opposed to putting them inside

BCFD-- The numeric values on his work sheets do not match the pictures drawn n 4 out of 5 examples thus far.

Fah-- Good work so far

"Tor"-- Drawn numbers symbols do not match numbers provided by the instructor. Should have hearing tested unofficially by a Thai teacher. I will arrange that when approprate.

Opor-- Good work

Boy-- Scribbled rushed writing. May improve if we can get full classroom coverage of disipline by a Thai teacher.

Pair-- Neat work but does not appear to understand the full meaning of the word "full' and "fill" when doing this assinment.

Pamda "Ramda" -- Good work

Pee-- Writes his own name with inverted E's. If evidence of this persists.. should be tested for strong Dislexic traits. Does not seem to understand arabic numerals and their relationship to physial objects. Child might require specialized education if a psycologist's test indicate.

Film-- Good work so far. Child is a bit lazy but this is an issue I think I can solve once classroom disipline is achieved a larger percentage of the time.

MoM-- Good work so far shows early signs of artistic creativity.. which I will encorage as class time and stress levels permit.

Most of the other students cannot be identifyed from work assinments because their names are written in Thai and thier assessments will have to wait until they can be made to identify themselfs by thier English nick name.

Khan Academy

I will be isolating after school lessons for my students in basic mathmatics and basic science. Some of these lessons will be used in class once the projector is installed and an internet connection is made to work. Khan Academy lessons that will be of interest to my M1-M2 students will be as follows.

RESEARCH RESOURCES
Article on various WEB learning resources, outside of the normal college path.
http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/05/14/how-the-internet-is-revolutionizing-education/


MATHMATICS
Multiplication http://www.khanacademy.org/video/basic-multiplication?playlist=Arithmetic


http://www.khanacademy.org/video/multiplication-2--the-multiplication-tables?playlist=Arithmetic

SCIENCES
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/c-4-photosynthesis?playlist=Biology

1/9 Science

Pages 3-4 of the science book (if availilble) will be reviewed and if their is time I will draw out how leaves make food for plants when hit by sunlight. (simplifyed version)

After school English signups

Rules for the Extra Saturday Class

These rules are not the official rules yet as this is still a planning document and subject to major revisions. Check back to this webpage to see if the rules have been finalized.

* Money will be paid before student is admitted to class, so cash is in hand for the instructor

*Class will not start till a certain minimum number of students has arrived and paid. If 10 students paying 100B each arrives class will begin at that rate. Should fewer then 10 students arrive 600B per hour private tutoring fee will be assessed per student.


STUDENT LIST
Amonrat Hannwichachaai(Kop)-- Mother of --Daughter "Eye" M1 Beginner
Contact(see Joe) (Requested Mon-Fri time slot for class instead of Saturday )

Math/ Eng 2/5 May 25th 9-10am

Note class may get a slow start as the teachers assistant will be entering and organizing the names of the students along with thier "nick names" and student numbers. We recived some unexpected news yesterday as many students who can write thier full names just fine, cannot write thier English nick names. This will slow down the process of making name tags quite a bit.

Class will review the simbols for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and how they appear in English.

Math and Accounting Board game Official Request

One area where most public schools could improve is one of the most basic. Kids need to know a great deal about what it takes to manage money. I dare say next to social skills, its one of the most essencial skills they can master, to ensure they control money instead of the other way around. The website below this paragraph has ordering information and additional items that would benifit the childrens education greatly AND this institutions good reputation. The company selling this product has been around long enough that a Thai language version of the game is probably avalible. If that version is not availible I can still teach the material in English so that students from my classes are ready for future issues surronding money.

http://www.richkidsmartkid.com/about.html

I have also found a web site that will be useful in teaching children about money to be found at ..

http://www.richkidsmartkid.com/minigames/bigchange.htm

Studying how the game above can make finacial education fun and simple for my students... watch this space for my findings on the matter.


Basic Concepts that students must have to control money.

I will focus on the following concepts in English so my students will know why they need to delay certain obvious purchaces and find other deals that will improve their finances over time. Concepts covered will include...

*What is an "asset" and what is a "liability". What those two cash flows look like on a visual peice of paper and later what they look like on an official balance sheet.

*How students can make money work for them instead of working for money.

*Integrating basic +, -, *, division, fractions and percentages, into learning about money.

*more to come watch this space