Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice Comberton Village College Mark Dawes Asnat Doza Comberton...

Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice

Comberton Village College

Mark Dawes

Asnat Doza

Comberton Village College

Teacher Inspiration Day 3 – 17 June 2011

This session

• Ordinary Department

• Using NRICH alongside other resources

• Telling our story

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Background

• The department – very different!

• No “corporate” lesson

• Freedom to teach

• Culture of sharing

• NRICH

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What were we trying to achieve?

• enhance the well-established and successful scheme of work to reflect the new National Curriculum

• incorporate rich tasks from NRICH • empower staff by giving them the skills to

utilise rich tasks and problem solving in their classrooms

• support learners in functioning more mathematically

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How did we try to achieve it?

• not by making NRICH activities compulsory!

• excite, support and encourage colleagues

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We identified two issues

• Training and support for members of the maths dept

• Identifying appropriate tasks to use with different topics

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What we did – overview

• Susanne was i/c NRICH– not HOD, but had HOD backing and time

• Initially she passed NRICH problems on to us all• Then department meeting to introduce problems• Eventually … NRICH problems in the scheme of

work• In the department meeting we were learners and

we were teachers

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This Workshop Session

In this session we will need to:

• act as pupils

• behave as colleagues & teachers

• be the teacher i/c NRICH at our school

• enjoy exploring more NRICH

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Teachers’ TV

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Teachers’ TV

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Issues?

Thoughts?

What difficulties might arise with this model?

What problems might arise?

• Difficult members of staff – how to convince them• Lots of NQTs• Lots of non-mathematicians teaching maths• Pressure from SMT • Coverage of the curriculum• Pupil expectations• Pupil behaviour• Ofsted• Etc

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Problem

Who would you use this problem with?

Why do this problem?

Possible approach

Key questions

Possible extension

Possible support

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Comberton Village College

Comberton Village College

Comberton Village College

Comberton Village College

Comberton Village College

Mark Dawes

Asnat Doza

mdawes@comberton.cambs.sch.uk