MPI - Day One: Mathematics is Core
Day One: Having done the Reading Practice Intensive, I half knew what to expect with the Maths Practice Intensive, but at the same time I really didn't. What I didn't expect was there to be such similarities between the two if I am honest.
Listening to the glorious Dorothy Burt is always a highlight for me. Discovering the history of Manaiakalani and maths was really interesting. What stuck with me from her segment was when she talked about 'Harnessing the digital technology effectively to really accelerate the learning'.
We looked at what makes a good mathematician and studied the profile of a good mathematician.
Mindset was discussed throughout the day, as to how a growth mindset affects students' attitudes and potential in all areas, in this case, maths. We were asked to complete a maths profile survey. as if we were a student in our class. Fortunately, my son was home today (he is in my class) so I got him to fill it out directly which was really interesting. Although I am not in class at the moment, I will have the class complete this for me still to analyse the results.
Establishing Ground Rules; I was familiar with the ground rules having completed RPI last year. Interestingly I had never thought to apply these in any teaching area outside of literacy, so that was a bit of a wake-up call for me. I find it very useful for students/teachers/TA's to be familiar with these, and to have them posted in plain-view.
Maths Across the Curriculum
I found this session to be really useful. Although I am a frequent user of TKI, I can't say the same for using the Connected tab - it was great to have time to look around both the TKI site, as well as NZMaths, which I regularly use for ideas.
This is how we were taught to teach back in the late 80s, early 90s at Teacher's College, and it was always a fun way to teach across a variety of subjects. With our timetable in Year 7 and 8 being so jam-packed with everything we have to fit in, this makes perfect sense.
Thanks Elena, Georgie and Donna. I really enjoyed the day.
Sharon
MMindet
Kia ora Sharon,
ReplyDeleteWohooo another intensive underway - you're going to be the rock star among us! Funny how we think about things in isolation (literacy versus maths) and then when we unpack the teaching and thinking required for these there are often huge crossovers. I'm really interested in following your journey on this course and learning from you as you go.
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Vic
Kia ora Sharon,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your awesome reflection! I'm going to be really keen to see the connections you make between the reading and maths content over time - I'm sure you'll notice that some of it is very similar (like the ground rules for talk, as you said), and that some of it will be much more subject specific. Where possible, we've tried hard to make clear links, partly because as you've said, it just makes sense to re-use a scaffold you're already using in another context.
I'm also keen to see how you go with the integration over time - some of this seemed to be less prominent when we started using the numeracy project resources, but it's definitely seeing a resurgence now, and again, just makes sense from a time perspective.
Have a great week,
Georgie