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This event has now taken place. But you can access all the video-presentations and event related content below!
If you’re tweeting today, we’re using the hashtag #CfEMLive and #CfEM. 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 Motivation & Engagement 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.
Cath Gladding from the Education and Training Foundation welcomes you to CfEM Live [1 min: 30 secs].
Joss Kang from touchconsulting Ltd. explains how the day works [2 mins: 26 secs]
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].
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:
(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 😃
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.
| Welcome 10:00 - 10:15 |
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| Main Zoom Room |
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| 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 Marie Joubert of the University of Nottingham. |
| 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 12:45. |
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| Room 1 | Room 2 |
| Thomas Goodridge from Northampton College and Beka Zarnadze from Harlow College | Katie Fremlin & Ben Ozanne from City College Plymouth |
| Delivering small group support through Learning Labs & Clinics | Improving the motivation and engagement of maths GCSE re-sit students in FE Colleges by providing additional maths coaching sessions personalised to their diagnosed gaps and to support with growth mindset, confidence and aspirations. |
| Daniel Marshall from BMAT STEM Academy and Sarah Stainsthorpe from Wilberforce College | Misbah Abbas, Jane Barnett, Jayon Charles & Byron Sheffield from Leyton Sixth Form College |
| How does style of assessment and feedback impact motivation and engagement of GCSE Maths students? | Using double number lines and bar modelling to teach the GCSE maths curriculum based on the Mastery approach |
| Lunch 12:25 - 12:45: Please take a break and move rooms if needed. |
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| Session 4: 2:00 - 4:15. Please choose one room for this session. | Session 4: 2:00 - 3:45. Please choose one room for this session. |
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| 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 |
| Katheryn Cockerton from Weston College, Elaine Fletcher from New College Swindon, Rebecca Morris from Heart of Worcestershire College and Tom Pearce from South Devon College | Mohammed Ibrahim, Zia Rahman & Liz Hopker from Newham College |
| Improving maths GCSE re-sit students’ understanding of mathematical structure by using models for their proportional reasoning in contextual problems. | Exploring ESOL specific teaching interventions of key words and phrases in the GCSE maths classroom and how they impact on learners’ progress |
| Michael Lancaster from Cambridge Regional College | Jonathan Diamond, Mamta Arvind & Jessica Margiotta from Leeds City College |
| To explore the use of collaborative planning as a tool for the professional development of GCSE Maths resit teachers. | How can a set curriculum/SoL increase the Motivation, Engagement and Achievement of GCSE maths re-sit learners in FE Colleges? |
| Anna Lister, Sandy Harrison & Fiona Dixon from Lakes College West Cumbria | Andy Snape and Rob Harrop from Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group and Victoria Tomlinson and Jennifer Hynes from Reaseheath College |
| Online – On-point or off-kilter? a CRISP delivery – enhancing the flavour of online maths, exploring: C ollaboration; R ole of the teacher; I ndependent learning; S upporting everyone; P eer learning | Improving the motivation and engagement of maths GCSE re-sit students in FE by utilising a blended learning approach. |
| Dean Lubin, Zoe Lethbridge, Elizabeth Rayner & Byron Sheffield from Leyton Sixth Form College | |
| How can blended learning be used to engage students in the learning experience | |
| Cath Gladding from the Education and Training Foundation | Marie Joubert from The University of Nottingham |
| Plenary (4:00 - 4:15) | Plenary (3:30 - 3:45) |
| Update 8/11/22: Please see here for CfEM Action Research Reports 2020-2021 | |
Finally, take a look at our Maths Motivation and Engagement & Mastery Padlet. It’s ready and waiting for videos and resources from today. You can see that the CfEM Maths Mastery Guide and Maths Motivation & Engagement Guide is waiting for you in the first column!
Browse this beautiful Wakelet curated by Lynne Taylerson
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.
