Learning skills — Getting help

Teachers are often a student’s first port of call when they are having a problem with a maths question. This work routine is one that causes the student to become overly reliant on the teacher and impacts their independent study skills.

This lesson focuses on the ‘Getting Help’ routines built into the Maths Pathway learning model so that students have a framework to follow when they are stuck and will only seek teacher help when their own problem solving steps have failed.

This lesson helps students to:

• Learn the that there are four steps to follow to get help when stuck
• Learn that asking the teacher for help is not the first step
• Learn where to find the four steps listed (on a wall poster and in the student app)
  
  

This video gives an overview of how this lesson should be run:

This video is the one that you will show to the students. You can either show it to them here, on YouTube, or on the PowerPoint:

We have attached a PDF of the plan for this lesson to this article. This document has links to all the resources required to run this lesson effectively.