Welcome to CfEMLive2 – 2020
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. Our theme today is Motivation and Engagement and 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 four fabulous sessions for you today, each focused around some aspect of Maths Motivation and Engagement (if you want to have a quick read up on Maths Motivation and Engagement, check out this fabulous guide). Each presentation will last around 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 88989. The question is How has today progressed your thinking and practice around Maths Motivation and Engagement? You can go back in as many times as you like.
At a few minutes before 10am, please go to the Maths Motivation and Engagement Zoom Room. No password is required.
Maths Motivation and Engagement 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
Georgina Ramsden and Kate Griffiths from Nelson and Colne College Group and Runshaw College
- Action Research Question 7: How do students respond to a team based competitive starter activity across a course of six weeks?
Samuel Winters and Lyndsey Mollison from Newcastle and Stafford College Group and Partners
- Action Research Question 16: What does an engaging lesson look like and how do Teachers teach them?
Session 2: 11am – 12noon
Tumay Gunduz, James Clayden and Sam Amin from Christ the King Sixth Form College, Shooters Hill College and St Charles Catholic Sixth Form
- Action Research Question 21: How does the use of Academic Improvement Mentors impact the learning experience and mindset of re-sit GCSE Maths students?
Michael Lancaster and Paul Hillier from Cambridge Regional College
- Action Research Question 10: How do student engagement coaches (for maths) help students to engage in learning maths?
Lunchbreak 12noon – 12.30pm (please take a break 🙏)
If you want to stay connected over lunch, there’s a few things you can do.
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- 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 Maths Motivation and Engagement 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.
- 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 88989. 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 Maths Motivation and Engagement Padlet. It’s ready and waiting for videos and resources from today. You can see that the Maths Motivation and Engagement Guide is waiting for you in the first column!
Then head back over to the Maths Motivation and Engagement Zoom Room for the final session of the day.
Maths Motivation and Engagement Agenda: Afternoon
Session 3: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Katheryn Cockerton, Neil Gardiner, Vicky Evans, Nick Abrahams, Tom Pearce and Matt Wilkinson from Weston College and Partners
- Action Research Question 18: How do students respond to incisive questions in the thinking environment?
Debra Jory, Darren Kimmince, Jane Ramsay and Katie Fremlin from City College Plymouth and Exeter College
- Action Research Question 20: How do students respond to maths lessons outside the traditional classroom environment?
Session 4: 1.30pm – 2pm
Debbie Truman from Warwickshire College
- Action Research Question 17: How do students respond to our growth mindset intervention?
Close 2pm – 2.30pm
We are delighted Marie Joubert from the University of Nottingham will close the session with some observations on the day and wish you all a Happy Friday and a safe ‘journey home’ 😃