Get inside the new Mathematics curriculum with What’s The Math-er. This second episode of series two is packed with inspiration. Lisa Walsh interviews Deputy Principal and teacher, Orla Byrne, who has been working with PDST and Oide for the past seven years.
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The ultimate user of assessment information that is elicited in order to improve learning, is the pupil
“INside the black box”, BLACK & WILIAM
A reflection on pupil voice and philosophy for children kicks off the interview and explores how those ideas impact classroom culture. Then the seminal research by Dylan Wiliam & Paul Black into the nature of effective classroom formative assessment gets a deep dive.
Formative assessment is a gamechanger for teachers. When I trained as a maths recovery teacher, the value of good assessment is what I took from it.
The rest of the interview goes on to range across an array of other key topics:
Pupil voice:
- Allow thinking time
- Quality over quantity
- To be built into Classroom Culture & School Culture
- Tips for implementing
- Links with Maths Talk
Key Competencies:
- Role in the new Primary Maths Curriculum
- Change in our thinking leads to change in our teaching which then becomes the real and lived out experience for pupils
- A deep dive into each of the 5 pedagogies/key competencies of the new curriculum with tips and advice for each one.
- Making links and connections between the 5 key competencies.
Maths Talk
Mathematical Modelling
Productive Disposition
Playfulness in Learning
Cognitively Challenging Tasks
Maths Recovery
- Powerful form of CPD
- Develops number sense
- Using assessment to inform teaching practice
- Value of self-assessment
- Teacher as facilitator
- Being able to do a lot with very simple resources
- Co-teaching/Team Teaching options
- Important for class teacher to have knowledge of Maths recovery in order to continue to implement the strategies on an ongoing basis.
PDST & Oide
Challenges encountered with teaching Maths & suggestions for overcoming these challenges
Tips and ideas for resources, assessment and differentiation
DEIS schools
STEM
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