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Expanding Teaching Practices through NRICH: Insights from Comberton Village College

In this session from Teacher Inspiration Day 2011, educators Mark Dawes and Asnat Doza from Comberton Village College share how they broadened teaching styles by integrating the NRICH framework with existing curricula. They discuss implementing rich mathematical tasks, empowering staff, and fostering a culture of sharing and collaboration. The focus is on enhancing the established curriculum while supporting student engagement and mathematical thinking. Participants explore challenges, solutions, and reflections on adopting innovative teaching methods to improve learning outcomes.

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Expanding Teaching Practices through NRICH: Insights from Comberton Village College

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  1. Teacher Inspiration Day 3 – 17 June 2011 Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice Comberton Village College Mark Dawes Asnat Doza Comberton Village College

  2. This session • Ordinary Department • Using NRICH alongside other resources • Telling our story Comberton Village College

  3. Background • The department – very different! • No “corporate” lesson • Freedom to teach • Culture of sharing • NRICH Comberton Village College

  4. What were we trying to achieve? • enhance the well-established and successful scheme of work to reflect the new National Curriculum • incorporate rich tasks from NRICH • empower staff by giving them the skills to utilise rich tasks and problem solving in their classrooms • support learners in functioning more mathematically Comberton Village College

  5. How did we try to achieve it? • not by making NRICH activities compulsory! • excite, support and encourage colleagues Comberton Village College

  6. We identified two issues • Training and support for members of the maths dept • Identifying appropriate tasks to use with different topics Comberton Village College

  7. What we did – overview • Susanne was i/c NRICH • not HOD, but had HOD backing and time • Initially she passed NRICH problems on to us all • Then department meeting to introduce problems • Eventually … NRICH problems in the scheme of work • In the department meeting we were learners and we were teachers Comberton Village College

  8. This Workshop Session In this session we will need to: • act as pupils • behave as colleagues & teachers • be the teacher i/c NRICH at our school • enjoy exploring more NRICH Comberton Village College

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  10. Teachers’ TV Issues? Thoughts? What difficulties might arise with this model? Comberton Village College

  11. What problems might arise? • Difficult members of staff – how to convince them • Lots of NQTs • Lots of non-mathematicians teaching maths • Pressure from SMT • Coverage of the curriculum • Pupil expectations • Pupil behaviour • Ofsted • Etc Comberton Village College

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