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Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012)
This edition in English
Description:
Chris Randall, explains Teacher of the Future , an intervention plan to improve standards in Maths. The plan provides specialist skills in ICT and Maths teaching, and targets individual children.Teachers use lesson plans authored by specialists and transferred to individuals through ICT. We see this planning and how Pali Nahal, specialist teacher, supports the class teacher before the lesson. They discuss the barriers to children understanding problem solving. It comes down to involvement, and ICT helps. It can break down the text of aproblem and help to highlight the mathematical language. Many children at this school have EAL, and physically acting out the problem progresses their understanding.Differentiation for some of the more able pupils is demonstrated and discussed; why not change the criteria of the problem? And can some children manipulate a problem purely mentally by the end of the lesson?
Problem solving is a difficult concept within KS2 Maths and in Sandwell they've looked for new ways to engage children. This programme is set in a school where they've had a measurable impact on teaching and learning in Maths by using specialist team teachers, ICT-based resources and kinaesthetic learning methods.We follow Pali Nahal from the Teacher of the Future project as she works with class teacher Becky Miller. They build a set of ICT-based sources to deliver the problem.The problem is: 24 sheep have to be shepherded into pens of three different sizes. How many ways can they be arranged? During the lesson, we see how team teaching with a specialist can motivate children and up-skill class teachers. We see how the interactive white boards can provide concrete starting points for mental manipulation. We also see how acting out a problem - the children were sheep in pens in the school hall - can assist with understanding