PD1: Getting started

1. PD1: Getting started

2. Aims of the session This session is intended to help us to: • reflect on our current assumptions, beliefs and teaching practices; • consider the aims of the approaches in this resource; • begin exploring ways in which our learners might become more actively engaged in their own learning.

3. Beliefs about learning and teaching • Put the statements you all agree with into one pile. (Modify the statements if you wish.) • Put the statements you all disagree with into a second pile. • If you cannot reach agreement about a statement, then place it in a third pile, noting the reasons for your disagreements.

4. Statements to discuss

5. Statements to discuss

6. Statements to discuss

7. Most common teaching methods

8. Least common teaching methods

9. Most common learning strategies

10. Least common learning strategies

11. Principles for effective teaching • Build on the knowledge learners bring to sessions. • Expose and discuss common misconceptions. • Develop effective questioning. • Use cooperative small group work. • Emphasise methods rather than answers. • Use rich collaborative tasks. • Create connections between mathematical topics. • Use technology in appropriate ways.

12. Make a poster Make a poster showing all you know about one of the following. • Decimal numbers. • Proportion. • Circles. • Quadratic functions. • Show all the facts, results and relationships you know. • Show methods and applications. • Select only the most important and interesting facts, both at a basic and a more advanced level.