1. Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice Comberton Village College Mark Dawes Asnat Doza Comberton Village College Teacher Inspiration Day 3 – 17 June 2011

2. This session Ordinary Department Using NRICH alongside other resources Telling our story Comberton Village College

3. Background The department – very different! No “corporate” lesson Freedom to teach Culture of sharing NRICH Comberton Village College

4. 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

5. How did we try to achieve it? not by making NRICH activities compulsory! excite, support and encourage colleagues Comberton Village College

6. We identified two issues Training and support for members of the maths dept Identifying appropriate tasks to use with different topics Comberton Village College

7. 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

8. 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

9. Teachers’ TV Comberton Village College

10. Teachers’ TV Comberton Village College Issues? Thoughts? What difficulties might arise with this model?

11. 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

12. Problem Who would you use this problem with? Why do this problem? Possible approach Key questions Possible extension Possible support

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17. Mark Dawes Asnat Doza mdawes@comberton.cambs.sch.uk