Welcome to CfEMLive3 – 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 themes today are 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 four fabulous sessions for you today, each focused around some aspect of either 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). 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 video-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 928462. 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 CfEMLive3 Zoom Room. No password is required.
CfEMLive3 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
Julie Baxter, Elizabeth Hopker and Mohamed Ibrahim from Newham College
- Action Research Question 27: How does video documenting learner journeys for GCSE Maths impact on motivation and engagement?
Ross Coupland from New College Stamford and Partners
- Action Research Question 15: How do maths learners perceive the role of interactive learning software in their classroom environment?
Session 2: 11am – 12noon
Mamta Arvind, Richard Greenwood & Jonathan Diamond from Leeds City College and Partners
- Action Research Question 6: Why do learners choose to engage, or not engage with online maths resources in college?
Anna Lister and Sandy Harrison from Lakes College and Partners
- Action Research Question 5: How does the maths classroom environment promote & support learning?
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 CfEMLive3 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 928462. 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 CfEMLive3 Padlet. It’s ready and waiting for videos and resources from today. You can see that the Maths Motivation and Engagement Guide and the Data and Technology Guide are waiting for you in the first column!
Then head back over to the CfEMLive3 Zoom Room for the final session of the day.
CfEMLive3 Agenda: Afternoon
Session 3: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Daniel Marshall & Paul Firth from Wilberforce and Franklin College
- Action Research Question 9: How does teachers and students use of Geogebra support understanding of geometry?
Vivian Kimeng & Beka Zarnadze from Harlow College and Partners
- Action Research Question 11: How do teachers use GCSE awarding body analysis to assess students’ strengths and areas for development and inform planning?
Session 4: 1.30pm – 2pm
Lorna McQueen from Fareham College and Partners
- Action Research Question 24: How does the use of maths coaches improve the motivation and engagement of GCSE maths re-sit students?
Close 2pm – 2.30pm
We are delighted Diane Dalby from the University of Nottingham will close the session with some observations on the day and wish you all a Happy Hump Day and a safe ‘journey home’ 😃