Here is a summary of the key points of today:
Preparing to Teach a Topic
Nick gave us a framework to use when planning to teach a topic, to help us think about all the different aspects which will guide us to plan tasks and lesson structure. Currently working on a database for this: Lesson Planning and Evaluation.
The essential questions are:
Motivation
1. Why is this topic worthy of study?
2. What is the relevance of this topic to life / maths?
Thinking
3. What images of experiences come to mind?
4. Have you ever thought about it differently?
Doing
5. What do you 'do' when you 'do' this topic?
6. What do you 'say' when you 'do' this topic?
We answered these questions for the topic of Negative Numbers. An important thing to consider with this topic is terminology, i.e. subtract, negative, minus etc.
Novel Mathematics
Nick gave out two sets of numbers and asked us to organise ourselves into groups of 3 or 4 where by adding or subtracting our numbers gave zero.
TLC Meeting
We briefly got together as a TLC to decide on our observations for this week, the framework of which is in the Question Observation Template.
The afternoon was a PDP session on how race, gender, ethnicity, disability etc. affect your view of children as learners.
