PD1: Getting started

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PD1 Getting started
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Aims of the session

• This session is intended to help us to
• reflect on our current assumptions, beliefs and
  teaching practices
• consider the aims of the approaches in this
  resource
• begin exploring ways in which our learners might
  become more actively engaged in their own
  learning.

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Beliefs about learning and teaching

• Put the statements you all agree with into one
  pile. (Modify the statements if you wish.)
• Put the statements you all disagree with into a
  second pile.
• If you cannot reach agreement about a statement,
  then place it in a third pile, noting the reasons
  for your disagreements.

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Statements to discuss
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Statements to discuss
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Statements to discuss
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Most common teaching methods
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Least common teaching methods
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Most common learning strategies
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Least common learning strategies
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Principles for effective teaching

• Build on the knowledge learners bring to
  sessions.
• Expose and discuss common misconceptions.
• Develop effective questioning.
• Use cooperative small group work.
• Emphasise methods rather than answers.
• Use rich collaborative tasks.
• Create connections between mathematical topics.
• Use technology in appropriate ways.

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Make a poster

• Make a poster showing all you know about one of
  the
• following.
• Decimal numbers.
• Proportion.
• Circles.
• Quadratic functions.
• Show all the facts, results and relationships you
  know.
• Show methods and applications.
• Select only the most important and interesting
  facts, both at a basic and a more advanced level.