Useful website March 26, 2008
Posted by Mhairi Stratton in : International Developments, Sharing Good Practice , add a commentThe Count Me in Too website is worth a look. It is informative and offers practical advice for class teachers.
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Count Me In Too is a project operating across New South Wales, Australia. It is designed to assist teachers broaden their knowledge of how children learn mathematics by focusing on the strategies students use to solve arithmetic tasks.
The project aims to improve the educational outcomes in mathematics for all students through professional development of teachers. It achieves this by increasing teachers’ understanding of how children develop increasingly sophisticated ways of solving arithmetical problems. The research-based learning framework used in the project provides direction for teaching and learning.
MR Tracker - getting started March 18, 2008
Posted by Mhairi Stratton in : East Lothian, Learning, Mr Tracker , add a comment•Initially ‘roam the known’ - Choose activities similar to the assessment interview to start with
•Plan daily - include 4-6 progression activities
•Consider and hypothesise about the current ways of thinking based on an initial interview or early lessons (OBSERVATIONS)
•Test your hypothesis by posing tasks and closely observe response
•Modify your hypotheses if necessary and continue the cycle
•Monitor children’s willingness to tackle the problem and how comfortable they are
•With practice and reflection teachers can learn to adjust in subtle and important ways the pace, difficulty and challenge in the tasks.
•Tailor the teaching as closely as possible to the initial and ongoing assessment. It should be at the cutting edge of children’s knowledge (ZPD)
•Activities should continually challenge with the aim to bring about reorganisations in the child’s thinking and the development of more sophisticated strategies.
•Use the skills of wait time, repeating, reposing and probing responses which you learned in the assessment phase.
MR Tracker site updated March 13, 2008
Posted by Mhairi Stratton in : East Lothian, Mr Tracker , add a commentI have finally managed to add example interviews for all assessment tasks. I hope that those people who have had MR Tracker training find them useful. Please let me know if more clips are required.
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Early Years Head Teachers’ Meeting March 5, 2008
Posted by Mhairi Stratton in : East Lothian, Mr Tracker , add a commentThe Early Years Strategy Group (Active Learning) were invited to speak at the Head Teachers meeting.
This was our PowerPoint for Numeracy:
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