Today I observed Lily’s session with her Year 11 Maths Advanced student. They were working through the functions and graphs topic. Lily went through some of the homework questions on graphing with her student and explained how to fix the questions that she got incorrect. Firstly Lily gave a great explanation about the classification of functions and relations and the different methods her student can use to help answer the question. Then they started working through a worksheet where Lily went through the question step by step with her student. This was a great idea as she showed her student the right way of how to go about these questions so she could eventually complete them by herself. Additionally, when working through a question I liked how Lily would encourage her student to write down the key information from the question so she could see what she was working with. Lily also ensured to tell her student what the correct answer for certain questions should look like which is good as it provides the student with a target to reach. I liked how Lily would let her student talk through her thought process and would not immediately say where she was going wrong, and rather tried to let her figure out her own mistake and get back on the right track independently.

Lily taught a great and well structured lesson today and I am very happy that I observed it. Well done Lily!

Sophia McLean