After a year of DMIC, my reflections:
Current Challenges
* How do we help children retain ideas?
* What do I need to do to best support children to build knowledge and strategy
Successes
* Children are more able to vocalise their learning
* Students are working together on one problem: sharing ideas, justifying, asking questions, agreeing/disagreeing, reasoning
* Materials were a fundamental tool for supporting discussions
Communication & Participation Framework
Justifying & Arguing Mathematically
* Structuring the activity is important
* Make sure you provide wait time (think time) for whole class
* Expect group members to support each other when sharing back - it is a collaborative sharing back
Questions to ask to encourage justifying...
How do you know?
Show me (materials)
Small Group Work
* 15-20 minutes to come up with a solution
* Think about grouping carefully put high needs child with 3 others (I question this...last year I found that children were more engaged if there was a smaller difference in ability rather than a larger difference in ability, when students just turned off)
* Seat close together
* Before introducing a topic, spend a week exploring the topic with open ended tasks, small activities, teacher workshops etc
Lesson Structure
3 min warm up
5-10mins launch problem & group norms
5 mins paired problem solving
5 mins large group discussion
If ready - second problem at next level, same context, different numbers
5 mins paired problem solving
5 mins large group discussion
10 mins connect
My next step....
* speed up the launch and maths time. Have a positive sense of urgency about the maths work.
* Provide students with problem and think-time then discussion and sharing before recording
Current Challenges
* How do we help children retain ideas?
* What do I need to do to best support children to build knowledge and strategy
Successes
* Children are more able to vocalise their learning
* Students are working together on one problem: sharing ideas, justifying, asking questions, agreeing/disagreeing, reasoning
* Materials were a fundamental tool for supporting discussions
Communication & Participation Framework
Justifying & Arguing Mathematically
* Structuring the activity is important
* Make sure you provide wait time (think time) for whole class
* Expect group members to support each other when sharing back - it is a collaborative sharing back
Questions to ask to encourage justifying...
How do you know?
Show me (materials)
Small Group Work
* 15-20 minutes to come up with a solution
* Think about grouping carefully put high needs child with 3 others (I question this...last year I found that children were more engaged if there was a smaller difference in ability rather than a larger difference in ability, when students just turned off)
* Seat close together
* Before introducing a topic, spend a week exploring the topic with open ended tasks, small activities, teacher workshops etc
Lesson Structure
3 min warm up
5-10mins launch problem & group norms
5 mins paired problem solving
5 mins large group discussion
If ready - second problem at next level, same context, different numbers
5 mins paired problem solving
5 mins large group discussion
10 mins connect
My next step....
* speed up the launch and maths time. Have a positive sense of urgency about the maths work.
* Provide students with problem and think-time then discussion and sharing before recording
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