Reflection on Indirect Method

   Ms. Sue was teaching a mathematics lesson to 2^nd grade. A very good warm up activity is being used to start with her new chapter. She prepared bags of colored jellybeans for each student, to distinguish colors, count their numbers and taste them, it took her about 3 minutes. She made sure they are not using their pencils to write, only their little fingers and their rational thinking. The object lesson was launched by asking questions ;that is ,passing responsibility for learning to students, allow them sometime to think, collect information,orqanize it ,then analyze it by the students themselves, with the teacher help on the bar graph. For example, “how many more people like green?””Yes move forward to the board and show us.”

The teacher used problem question, and encouraged students to volunteer. She was always among students making sure, they understood the given problem question. This is an inductive way of teaching, as a conceptual movement, for Sue used a real life situation ,so that students will come up with the rule .She used more examples to seek more clarification, not to forget she did provide question hints that call their attention to inappropriate responses and correct it themselves .Finally we can say some indirect strategies were seen in Sue’s methodology of teaching, which helped her complete the mission successfully.