How will Cuemath train and certify you?

COURSES TO BUILD MATH KNOWLEDGE

Cuemath has an online training course for new teachers. The course typically takes 10-15 days if you have prior math background (you have studied math as a part of your bachelor's or master's degree).

If your familiarity level is lower, it might take more time for you to be certified.

RESOURCES FOR BUILDING EXPERTISE IN EACH TOPIC

For each topic, there is a resource guide with topic-specific courses. Cuemath teachers are trained on the leap platform under different categories.

EMPATHY TOWARDS CHILDREN

To deliver great learning outcomes the curriculum and the teacher's ability to get the child to generate effort in the class is very important.  

Most Cuemath teachers are also parents and they understand how to generate effort from children,  intuitively.

Cuemath puts a lot of emphasis on training teachers and sharing best practices to induce effort in class.

Empathy and personal attention are crucial. Therefore, there is only 1 student per Cuemath class.

Instructions are individualized for each student. The teacher typically deploys different strategies for each student, to clarify concepts, motivate students, and induce effort in class.

TEACHING YOUNGER CHILDREN IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM TEACHING OLDER CHILDREN

Depending on the age group of the students being taught, the relative importance of these two attributes (Math Knowledge and Empathy) varies.

For university-level mathematics, high subject matter expertise is needed. And given that most university students are adults, one can be a good teacher even if their empathy towards children is lower because the adult will put in more effort and generally be more disciplined.

On the other hand, when teaching students from KG to grade 8, empathy and the ability to generate effort is the single biggest determinant of a good teacher and effective learning outcomes.

FOR KG TO GRADE 8 TO DELIVER LEARNING OUTCOMES, A GOOD TEACHER WOULD:

• Motivate and inspire.
   
• Encourage students not to be afraid of making mistakes.
   
• Encourage students to ask questions without fear.
   
• Is able to explain concepts in simple terms by doing online worksheets and simulations.

It is critical to ensure that students feel comfortable speaking up and feel the environment is conducive to learning. In our experience, we’ve observed that parents generally have high empathy, demonstrate patience, and make very good teachers.

One of the main objectives of a teacher is to drive effort so that the students excel In order to do this, the teacher has to be observant and make good decisions.

“Good teachers are constantly making decisions about a range of ideas, issues, and events: content, student behavior, catering to different learning styles, and so on” (Professor John Loughran, Monash University).

The Cuemath App uses various analytical methods to help make decisions on curriculum, topics, tests, and exercises.

The expectation from the teacher in class is for the teacher to invest energy and time to drive student effort in class.

YOUR EMPATHY COMBINED WITH OUR SUPPORT

As long as you have empathy, Cuemath equips you with the right tools and strategies to make classroom delivery effective and impactful. Teachers are trained on Cuemath’s own Learning LEAP Framework where teachers learn how to:

• Plan for a class.
   
• Respond to children in the right way.
   
• Accelerate learning through various strategies.
   
• Cue answers rather than simply giving them away.
   
• Motivate and engage students through rewards.

In addition, to help new teachers, some of the older and more experienced teachers mentor the new teachers. Each new teacher is assigned a mentor teacher who is called a “buddy teacher”.

The buddy teacher ensures that the first few classes run smoothly and new teachers are comfortable implementing all the learning strategies.

AT CUEMATH STUDENTS LEARN BY DOING

The Cuemath method puts a student in charge of their own learning (also referred to as the active learning philosophy). A Cuemath teacher is expected to play the role of a facilitator rather than a conventional teacher.

Online Worksheets and interactive activities are designed age-appropriately so that the children can themselves use them.

This allows the student to be in greater control of their own learning and importantly more engaged in class.

Typically a student at a Cuemath class has double the practice one can expect at school. To deliver this speed, it is crucial to engage the student in the class.

THE LEAP INTERFACE IS YOUR PERSONAL ASSISTANT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

All students work on their own set of online worksheets that Cuemath provides. The teacher's LEAP interface assigns worksheets to students based on their learning plan.

Thus teachers don’t have to make lesson plans or come up with their own learning plans. Students take assessments after they’ve completed the topic.

So a teacher does not have to make tests or grade them. All the admin work is taken care of by the LEAP platform.

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