Open Day Programme - Friday 9th March
The day is aimed at colleagues charged with developing, implementing or teaching mathematics with a focus on GCSE. Gain insight into how a mathematics department has been created that marries together academic success with innovative teaching. There will be an opportunity to visit maths classrooms and to talk to students. Maths is taught in flexible learning environments in an ICT rich setting. Part of the experience will be to see how the department makes use of extensive resources on the VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) and the flexible learning spaces.
About the day
- 9:15 Welcome and Coffee.
- 9.30 Session One – Departmental learning walk there will be an opportunity to visit lessons and to talk to students and teachers. See how the maths team at Cramlington Learning Village delivers engaging maths lessons based around a robust planning cycle.
- 10:10 Session Two – Delegates will unpack the Cramlington planning cycle which follows the phases: connect, agree learning outcomes (content, process and benefit), present new information, construct, demonstrate and review learning. All mathematics lessons are planned using the Cramlington Cycle. Each phase is unpacked and explained in relation to engagement and achievement in the classroom.
- 11:00 Session Three – Departmental learning walk there will be second opportunity to visit lessons and to talk to students and teachers to see how the planning cycle is implemented in the classroom.
- 11:50 Session Four - Consider the pedagogical approaches used and how they permeate to the core of what happens in the classroom, shifting the locus of control from teacher to student, supporting a differentiated pathway through GCSE mathematics.
- 12:30 Working Lunch & Networking.
- 1:10 Session Five - After lunch, delegates will learn how the mathematics department are ritually building into lessons the opportunity for students to engage with mathematics in a kinaesthetic way. This highly active session is full of ideas for how to make learning in maths fun and physical, whether it is helping students learn how to graph equations or using dance mats to practice the simplification of indices. We will share video footage of the students in action and share our experiences of using the ideas in the classroom.
- 2:10 Session Six - Data analysis and student voice, we will answer the question how do you know it is working and share the systems in place to support achievement at GCSE.
- Plenary and opportunity for further questions
- 3:15 Finish
