5+1 Teacher Training Program: Week 4

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This is week 4 of the Teacher Training program (classes during week 3 were cancelled because of the Chuseok holiday).

Here is our schedule for this session:

Week 4 – Initiative and entrepreneurship

Week 5 – Effective oral communication

Week 6 – Curiosity and imagination

Week 7 – Oral Presentations

QUICK LESSON REVIEW

Week 1

  • mental agility (learn 30 many words without writing)
  • thesis and hypothesis sentence patterns

Week 2

  • critical thinking (logic puzzles)
  • accessing and analyzing Data (food and tax data analysis)
  • review Art of Failure (choke, panic, stereotype threat)

Week 3 – no classes, paid vacation

 

RICE PADDIES AND MATH TESTS

Argument

The writer believes Asian students are better at math than kids in Western countries because the systematic naming system makes math easier and more enjoyable to learn. The naming system is more systematic because the names of numbers follow a predictable pattern. This helps students perform calculations more easily. In addition, the relative short length of number names means kids can remember more numbers at any given time than kids using other languages. When math questions are easy to solve, the writer believes kids like math more and therefore feel motivated to do well.

Hypotheses

  1. the shorter the word sound, the more sound people can remember
  2. the more systematic the number naming system, the faster students can learn math
  3. the more transparent the math numbering system, the more students enjoy math

 

INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

“The world no longer cares how much you know; the world cares about what you can do with what you know.”

What is initiative?

The drive or desire to achieve an objective.

What is entrepreneurship?

The ability to see a problem, develop a solution and take a risk by getting the resources needed to achieve and objective.

Challenge 1

You and your team have 5000 won. The challenge: make as much money as possible in 2 hours.

This was an assignment that a professor gave her class Stanford University.

There were three winning teams, each with a great idea.

Your challenge: come up with two really good ideas.

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