Welcome to CfEMLive4 – 2020

Welcome to the last of the four fabulous CfEMLive events! If you’re tweeting today, we’re using the hashtag #CfEMLive We’d also love you to use #FEMaths – today is a great opportunity to join up maths practitioners all over the country (and do share your Twitter handle in chat once you’re in Zoom).

We are so excited to welcome you to this hugely popular virtual conference. Today we’ve got all the themes: Mastery, Motivation and Engagement and Data and Technology. We are excited to hear from CfEM partners about their action research.

Here’s Lou Mycroft to welcome you to #CfEMLive

As you’ll hear from Lou’s welcome, today is all about you and your maths pedagogy. Whether you are sharing your action research, or learning from others’ research, we will be encouraging you to listen, ask questions of others and appreciate the effort that has gone into each and every one of these research presentations. Please note that we will be filming all presentations and they will be stored in the public domain. Thank you.

But firstly please can you register to tell us you’re here? We’ll be using this information to update ETF’s booking system. Press hit Submit if the registration form has disappeared.

Great. You’ve probably got time to go make a cuppa 😃

Now for the agenda. We’ve got three fabulous sessions for you today, each focused around some aspect of Mastery, Maths Motivation and Engagement or Data and Technology (if you want to have a quick read up on Maths Motivation and Engagement, check out this fabulous guide. The Data and Technology guide is here and the Mastery guide is here). Each presentation will last not more than 20 minutes, followed after both by the opportunity to process your thinking in small groups using our Menti question (see below), making use of the Zoom break-out rooms. This ensures that you have some processing time, to discuss what you’ve been hearing. There will be no ‘death by feedback’, we promise!

We’ll keep you muted during the sessions, to minimise background noise, so do ask any questions via chat. Remember all the vidoe-presentations will edited and made available on the Padlet after the event.

You might wish to contribute to our CfEMLive2 Menti during the day. Go to www.menti.com on your phone and the code is 921561. The question is How has today progressed your thinking and practice? You can go back in as many times as you like.

At a few minutes before 10am, please go to the CfEMLive4 Zoom Room. No password is required.

 

CfEMLive4 Agenda: Morning

First of all Joss Kang will welcome us to the day.

Joss is the Managing Director of touchconsulting Ltd and many of you will have met her during the course of your CfEM involvement. Joss is passionately supportive of practitioner action research and she’ll say a few words of reflection about her involvement in the CfEM Programme.

Then we’ll head over to the Action Research projects!

 

Session 1: 10am – 11am

Sands Dobson and Marianne Maloy from Gateshead College

• Action Research Question 1: Does topic – based formative assessment to enable individualised learning, improve learner outcomes? (Tech & Data)

 

Leigh McLachlan and Alison Riley from Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education and Bishop Burton College

• Action Research Question 4: What are the barriers to maths achievement for students who are on a Level 3 vocational programme, but studying GCSE Maths Re-sit? (M&E)

 

Session 2: 11am – 12noon

Julie Baxter, Elizabeth Hopker and Mohamed Ibrahim  from Newham College

• Action Research Question 28: How do GCSE learners with ESOL needs respond to teaching interventions of key words & phrases specific to GCSE maths? (Mastery)

 

Chelsea Lovell from Greater Brighton Metropolitan College and Worthing College

• Action Research Question 25: How do teachers respond to mindfulness training? (M&E)

 

Lunchbreak 12noon – 12.30pm (please take a break 🙏)

If you want to stay connected over lunch, there’s a few things you can do.

1. • Tweet (and retweet) using the hashag #CfEMLive. Who else is using the hashtag? They might be here. Seize the moment and follow them, as you are likely to have professional interests in common.
   • Feel free to use the CfEMLive4 Zoom Room over lunch time, to chat with whoever’s there. We won’t need to be in there, except to give a bit of pre-session support just before 12.30pm.
   • Check out the CfEM Maths Handbooks. You may not have seen the Contextualisation of Maths one.
   • Add to our mentimeter! You can see the rolling comments, below. Menti gives just a flavour of the day, and you’ve had the code since this morning, plenty of chance for people to post. Remember it’s www.menti.com on your phone and the code is 921561. You can go back in as many times as you like.

And if you feel the need to stretch and unwind, try this 5 minute Yoga Break!

Finally, take a look at our CfEMLive4 Padlet. It’s ready and waiting for videos and resources from today. You can see that all the guides are waiting for you in the first column!

Then head back over to the CfEMLive4 Zoom Room for the final session of the day.

CfEMLive4 Agenda: Afternoon

Session 3: 12.30pm – 1.30pm

Chris Lynch from Westminster Kingsway College

• Action Research Question 29: How does the use of CENTURY TECH impact re-sit GCSE learners in terms of: engagement, motivation and results? (M&E)

 

Ioannis Markopoulos & Seval Fadil from USP (part of Harlow CfEM)

• Action Research Question 12: How does using technology (Au. R) impact on learners’ understanding of problem solving with shape? (Data and Tech)

Close 1.30pm – 2pm

We are delighted Diane Dalby from the University of Nottingham will close the session with some observations on the day and wish you all one last time a Happy Friday and a safe ‘journey home’ 😃