Sunday, May 6, 2018

Maths teacher capacity building program for newly appointed and low performing school teachers


According to the letter dated 2018/05/02 the above program has been conducted separately for both mediums. Sinhala medium program was held in P/St.Andrew's MV on 2018.05.11. The program started from 8.30am onwards. As the program was arranged for all the Sinhala medium teachers in our zone, altogether fifty eight teachers and teacher resource persons participated.


The program was mainly focused on sharing knowledge and experience by senior teachers for newly appointed ones and some methodologies followed by Singaporean teachers were also shared. Explanation on remedial teaching through ELC and ELC modules with various materials introduced by NIE were also discussed with newly appointed teachers.

Treasure hunting and other activity based teaching methods were also presented with grouping teachers. The structure of question paper was also explained with the presentation.
(Click on the links to download relevant materials- program slides, ELC explained(S/T), ELC module complete(S/T), NIE materials explained, O/L maths paper structure, O/L marking scheme-2017(S/T))


While Tamil medium is scheduled on 2018.05.14 in P/Zahira NS from 8.30 AM to 4.00 PM. Our experienced mathematics teachers have been invited here to share their knowledge and experience with their junior teachers so that junior ones can perform well in the upcoming general exams. 
Grade 6 (catagory-I) mathematics Olympiad contest - 2018

According to the letter dated 2018.04.25, grade 6 mathematics Olympiad test for selecting students for the provincial pool was held zonal-wide on 2018.05.03. Papers (S/T) were sent to relevant divisions. It is expected that final results must be sent to zonal office on or before 2018.05. If you have not yet received marking scheme, please click here to download it. Only 100 top scorers in zonal-wise results will be produced for provincial Olympiad pool for this year of 2018.