Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice

Comberton Village College

Susanne Mallett

Mark Dawes

Comberton Village College – 3rd July 2009

Teacher Inspiration Day 3 – 3rd July 2009

Background

• The department – very different!

• No “corporate” lesson

• Freedom to teach

• Culture of sharing

• NRICH

Comberton Village College – 3rd July 2009

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

Comberton Village College – 3rd July 2009

How did we try to achieve it?

• not by making NRICH activities compulsory!

• excite, support and encourage colleagues

Comberton Village College – 3rd July 2009

What we did – overview

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

• Initially Susanne passed on NRICH problems to us all

• Then department meeting to introduce problems• Eventually … NRICH problems in the scheme of

work– Susanne will give these later

• In the department meeting we were learners and we were teachers

Comberton Village College – 3rd July 2009

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

Comberton Village College – 3rd July 2009