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1. Welcome to CfEMLive 2021 – Data & Technology and Mastery (Friday 2 July 2021 09:30 for 10:00 – 3:30)

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 the Education and Training Foundation’s hugely popular virtual Centres for Excellence in Maths (CfEM) conference. Our theme is Data & Technology and Mastery and we are excited to hear from CfEM partners about their action research. If you have joined up after the event has taken place, you can access all the video-presentations below. 

Here’s Cath Gladding, head of ETF’s CfEM National Research Advisor to welcome you to #CfEMLive. Next up is Joss Kang, co-host for room 2, explaining how the day works as you co-construct your own timetable. Then, meet Lou Mycroft – co-host for room 1 –  explaining how you can engage throughout the day with the presenters, each other and the wider maths community. 

Video 1

Cath Gladding from the Education and Training Foundation welcomes you to CfEM Live. [1 min: 30 secs].

Video 2 

Joss Kang from touchconsulting Ltd. explains how the day works [2 mins: 26 secs]

Video 3

Lou Mycroft from touchconsulting Ltd explains how you can engage throught the day with presenters, each other and the wider maths community. [3 mins: 39 secs]. 

2. Your #CfEM – and registration

As you’ll hear from the welcome videos, 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 two tasks for you. Please can you:

  • register to tell us you’re here using this form? We’ll be using this information to update the ETF’s booking system
  • review the timetable below and work out which sessions you want to access today

(we’ve designed the day so you can move between the two parallel zoom rooms at specific points & we’ll record so you can catch up on all sessions)  

Great. You’ve probably got time to go make a cuppa 😃An image of teacups, to invite you to get a brew

Now for the agenda & timetable. We’ve got four fabulous sessions for you today, each focused around some aspect of Maths Motivation & Engagement and/or Maths Mastery. Each presentation will last around 20 minutes, followed after by the opportunity to process your thinking making use of the Zoom break-out rooms in the morning, and this afternoon a Typeform. 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 be edited and made available on this landing page and the ETF’s CfEM YouTube channel after the event.

The processing questions we’ll be using are:

What have you seen or heard that you’d like to implement in your own organisation? What’s your rationale for that?

We’ll keep coming back to these two questions in the morning breakout pairs/triads and afternoon’s Typeform. 

At a few minutes before 10am, please go to the Main Zoom Room for our CfEMLive21 welcome and then its straight into session one. All zoom links and password details (if needed) are in the relevant session of the timetable. 

3. Agenda & Timtable for Friday 2 July 2021

Welcome 10:00 - 10:15
Main Zoom Room
Meeting ID: 817 1317 5225
Passcode: 295386
Join the team for a welcome chat before choosing your rooms and heading off to session 1.
Please note that Room 1 will be facilitated by Lou Mycroft and Lynne Taylerson with assistace from Kayte Haselgrove, and a closing plenary from Cath Gladding of the Education and Training Foundation. Room 2 will be facilitated by Joss Kang from touchconsulting Ltd. and Sammy White with assistance from Lisa Sidwells, and a closing plenary from Diane Dalby of the University of Nottingham.
Session 1: 10:15 - 11:15. Please choose one room for this session.
The next time you will be able to change rooms, if you wish, is when you have a break at 11:15
Room 1 Room 2
Sarah Morgan from East Kent CollegeNaomi Adams from Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
Diagnostic teaching - how do FE students respond to teaching designed to focus on their’ starting points & address knowledge gaps?Improving confidence and competence of time-poor teachers in AfL techniques in the context of a global pandemic.
Georgina Ramsden from Nelson and Colne College and Gayle Gothard from Runshaw CollegeMichelle Bilby from Leicester College
What impact does the introduction of Flipped Learning have on learners’ experience of the GCSE maths resit course? Flipped learning- can it help to make learners more independent?
Break: 11:15 - 11:25. Please take a break and move rooms if needed.
Session 2: 11:25 - 12:25. Please choose one room for this session.
The next time you will be able to change rooms, if you wish, is after lunch at 1:00.
Room 1
Room 2
Kate Griffiths and Vikki Wilson from Runshaw College Tracy Dutton, Lorna McMahon and Laura Skermer from Tameside College
What impact do interventions based on the VESPA mindset model have on GCSE maths resit students? To raise attainment in level 2 students by developing an effective mastery model of intervention which fosters a positive mind-set by increasing learner confidence
Mark Stewart, Sands Dobson and Marianne Maloy from Gateshead College
Mark Bellworthy from Harlow College and Ioannis Markopoulos from USP College
Can a focussed intervention on improving basic Number skills at Early Years/KS1 result in an improvement in relevant and related skills at Key Stage 3 & 4?The impact of the use of Technology in engaging Learners.
Lunch 12:25 - 1:00: Please take a break and move rooms if needed.
Session 3: 1:00 - 2:00. Please choose one room for this session.
The next time you will be able to change rooms, if you wish, is when you have a break at 2:00.
See how delegates responded to the questions that were asked in this session here.
Room 1 Room 2
Jonathan Diamond, Mamta Arvind and Jesica Margiotta from Leeds CollegeShabana Raman from East Kent College
Why do learners choose to engage or not engage with online maths resources?Introducing blended teaching and learning opportunities through the use of interactive maths software.
Ross Coupland from New College StamfordPrakash Patel and John Chatterjee-Woolman from Leicster College
Introducing blended teaching and learning opportunities through the use of interactive maths software.Investigate how to improve learners' problem-solving skills in FE maths.
Break: 2:00 - 2:15. Please take a break and move rooms if needed.
Session 4: 2:15 - 3:30. Please choose one room for this session.
Session 4: 2:15 - 3:00. Please choose one room for this session.
See how delegates responded to the questions that were asked in this session here. See how delegates responded to the questions that were asked in this session here.
Room 1
Room 2
Xen Cottam from Weston College of Further and Higher EducationDebbie Trueman from the Warwickshire College Group
Can using Social Media based platforms in maths improve student Motivation and Engagement? Empowering Teachers to Investigate and Tackle Maths Resilience.
Paloma Hanlon from Greater Brighton Metropolitan CollegeDiane Dalby from The University of Nottingham
Investigate how Maths GCSE students respond to a short course on mindfulness, focusing on how it affects their experiences in the classroom and in tests.Plenary
Cath Gladding from the Education and Training Foundation
Plenary
Update 8/11/22: Please see here for CfEM Action Research Reports 2020-2021

4. Padlet

Finally, take a look at our Maths Mastery Padlet. It’s ready and waiting for videos and resources from today. You can see that the Maths Mastery Guide is waiting for you in the first column!

Made with Padlet

5. Wakelet

Browse this beautiful Wakelet curated by Lynne Taylerson

6. Update February 2022: CfEM Interim Report – now published

The ‘Changing the Experience of Further Education Maths’ CfEM interim report is now available. This is a synthesis of 2020/2021 Action Research Reports. Please see here for details of the press release on the ETF website and here to download the report.

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