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About Mathscademy:
Mathscademy is run by Raj Kumar to provide mathematics support and consultancy.
Programme Overview:
Topic Secondary Mathematics
Provider Mathscademy.co.uk
Speaker(s) Raj Kumar
Days One
Dates Tuesday 20th February 2018
Timings 8:30am to 3:30pm
Cost AED 1100 per delegate
What is Included Delegate handouts. Certificate of Attendance. Lunch and refreshments.
Partner School Venue Repton School, Dubai
About the Trainer:
Raj Kumar has over 20 years’ experience of teaching mathematics in secondary schools. He has been a Mathematics Adviser for Yorkshire LA, playing a significant role in raising standards in mathematics in many secondary schools. He has experience of working alongside a variety of senior leadership teams to support teachers and students to raise standards and improve progress in mathematics. Raj firmly believes in the power of collaboration around planning, teaching and reviewing impact.
As an independent practitioner he now works with the National STEM Centre, the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, the Further Maths Support Programme, several Maths Hubs and Teaching Schools.
Raj supports the improvement in teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment and intervention in schools, embedding best practice and building capacity. He enjoys leading professional development of all types and has developed a rich repertoire of supportive and engaging ways of challenging thinking and stimulating ideas.
Raj was a member of the National Strategies' mathematics pedagogy group and has helped write materials that have been distributed to all maintained schools in England. He has also written many exciting resources to support teachers and mathematics teams to stimulate dialogue amongst teachers and students. Some of these resources include, ‘Welcome to MathDonald’s, Webgebra Cards, Angle Chase and Problem Solving Mind Maps. He is passionate about mathematics and believes that the teaching of key concepts is crucial to successful learning.
Engage, Motivate and Challenge Students Through Effective Questioning
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Infinite Learning in partnership with Mathscademy offers
Who Should Attend? KS3/4 teachers, KS3/4 Coordinators, HoDs
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Testimonials: “Made me think what type of questions I should ask to accurately assess my students’ understanding. Many thanks.” Maths teacher, Leicester, UK. “The strategies shared today are simple but so effective! Cheers.” NQT, York, UK. “Creating the right environment for questioning enabled me to think about my students’ fear of responding to questions. Thanks for sharing! KS4 Coordinator, Leeds, UK.
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Intended Outcomes: Teachers plan for effective questions in their lessons to develop students’ deeper understanding. Problem solving becomes the heart of learning in mathematics classrooms.
Aims of the course: Understand the difference between effective and ineffective
questions in mathematics
Using rich activities to highlight the importance of effective questioning
Think about embedding effective questioning into their SoL
Programme Details:
08:30 Registration and refreshments
08:45
Why ask questions? How do questions stimulate learning? What is effective questioning? How do you create the right climate for questioning?
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15
Strategies for effective questioning that you could use. Consider some of the activities to think how you could use them with your students. How would you ‘stretch’ and ‘squash’ the activity to cater for your students’ abilities through effective questioning?
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Using the support materials and the rich activities, think about how you could embed these into your SoL to promote effective questioning across your department.
15.30 Finish
Engage, Motivate and Challenge Students Through Effective Questioning