About this course

 

Are you fed up of humdrum lessons? Do you feel lost under the confetti of paper around your classroom?

Do you resent being tied to the photocopier: are you confused by the different pages in the workbooks the children need and are you thrown by the matrix at the front of the teacher’s book? Do you want to teach with your own inspiring ideas instead?

Would a host of practical teaching ideas empower you to leave Google searches behind?

This exciting course will enrich your teaching with practical ideas that you can apply in your classroom the very next day. Teachers ask thousands of questions every term in their teaching – but how many really make a difference to your pupils and re-energize your teaching.

 Become your own Maths teacher with your own inspiring ideas

 

• practical classroom-ready ideas and resources
• small group size to facilitate interaction and full engagement
• group/pair work and discussion with the tutor
• pdf of the course booklet 

Course Outcomes:

• Discover truly outstanding questioning which enables effective group work
• Broaden your repertoire of strategies to turn closed procedure into opening questions
• Understand the threat and exhilaration of creative learning
• Find out how to check we have made a difference. The realists guide!

Course Outline:

Preaching to the converted

Identifying maths in the environment

Examining how deeper learning makes a difference in maths

Tracking progression in learning

Supporting effective learning

Laying the foundations for successful learning

Meaningful maths talk properly

Planning mathematical reasoning and problem solving

Taking your learning experiences deeper

The questions that make a difference

Core questions to use in almost every maths lesson

Active learning in maths that isn’t messing around!

Helping children to help themselves to learn

Using your assessment to teach at the point of learning