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Teacher Inspiration Day 3 – 17 June 2011. Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice. Comberton Village College Mark Dawes Asnat Doza. Comberton Village College. This session. Ordinary Department Using NRICH alongside other resources Telling our story. Comberton Village College. Background.
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Teacher Inspiration Day 3 – 17 June 2011 Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice Comberton Village College Mark Dawes Asnat Doza Comberton Village College
This session • Ordinary Department • Using NRICH alongside other resources • Telling our story Comberton Village College
Background • The department – very different! • No “corporate” lesson • Freedom to teach • Culture of sharing • NRICH Comberton Village College
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
How did we try to achieve it? • not by making NRICH activities compulsory! • excite, support and encourage colleagues Comberton Village College
We identified two issues • Training and support for members of the maths dept • Identifying appropriate tasks to use with different topics Comberton Village College
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 Comberton Village College
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
Teachers’ TV Comberton Village College
Teachers’ TV Issues? Thoughts? What difficulties might arise with this model? Comberton Village College
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 Comberton Village College
Comberton Village College Mark Dawes Asnat Doza mdawes@comberton.cambs.sch.uk Comberton Village College