Keeping Up with Mrs Faalili

Click on image to Personal Notes from PLD  Provider/Presenter: Workshop 1 - Sue Pine  Inquiry Based Mathematics: It’s just effective pedagogy! Workshop 2 - Lucie Cheeseman  Mathematical Discovery - exploring visual mathematics and the art of “Make and Create” If I was to summarise the key things I took away from this Professional Development what would they be and why? The need to think about the DATs in my teaching of maths and how I can use this to further support the learning of my students. By being deliberate I am maximising this window of learning for my students. The need to 'make and create' for mathematical learning, that it's not just about Using Materials to support their learning of concepts. Students should be given opportunities to make choices of which materials and also to physically or digitally make and create a visual representation of mathematical concepts. The importance and need for low floor, high ceiling type of number problems, problems that encou...

  Click on image to open up Personal Notes from PLD Name of Course/Programme/Seminar: Boys in Literacy - Cracking the code Provider/Presenter: Marshall Diggs If I was to summarise the key things I took away from this Professional Development what would they be and why? You can have  control  or you can have  growth  - but you can’t have both. Position myself to fit the needs of my boys. Make myself uncomfortable so they don’t have to be. Greatest contribution is not what you teach, but who you teach Boys will not invest into learning until I invest into them Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind Boys like competition but not when it exposes their inabilities Light fires not fill buckets It’s not what you teach but who you teach Interest based - not curriculum based Repeat, restate - but don’t rephrase How has this professional development challenged my thinking? Didn't really challenge, rather affirm what I'm doing with my boys. - Experiences to build language for wr...