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This event has now taken place. But you can access all the video-presentations and event related content below! All videos are also available on the CfEM Action Research 2021-2022 playlist via the Education and Training Foundation’s Excellence Gateway YouTube Channel.
Mathematical Resilience
Wednesday 29 June 2022 9:30 for 9:45 – 2:30
1. Welcome to CfEM Live 2022
If you’re tweeting today, we’re using the hashtag #CfEMlive22 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 Mathematical Resilience: helping learners overcome negative attitudes and the various ways teams and organisations have developed a culture in which everyone believes all students can achieve. We are so excited to hear from CfEM partners about their action research.
Here’s Steve Pardoe, Head of CfEM at the ETF, and Cath Gladding, ETF’s CfEM National Research Advisor to welcome you to #CfEMlive22. Next up is 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
Steve Pardoe from the Education and Training Foundation welcomes you to CfEM Live [3 min: 15 secs].
Video 2
Cath Gladding from the Education and Training Foundation welcomes you to CfEM Live [1 min: 43 secs].
Video 3
Lou Mycroft from touchconsulting Ltd explains how you can engage throughout 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 (in Section 3 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 and 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 and timetable. We’ve got three fabulous sessions for you today, each focused around some aspect of Maths Resilience. Each presentation will last around 20 minutes, followed by the opportunity to process your thinking making use of the Zoom break-out rooms in the morning, and this afternoon a Menti. 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?
Why and how are you going to do this?
We’ll keep coming back to these two questions in the morning breakout triads and afternoon’s Menti.
At a few minutes before 9:45am, please go to the Main Zoom Room for our CfEM Live 2022 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 and Timetable for Wednesday 29 June 2022
| Welcome: 9.45 - 10:00 |
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| Main 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 a closing plenary from Cath Gladding of the ETF. Room 2 will be facilitated by Joss Kang from touchconsulting Ltd. and Julie Baxter, National Head of Maths for the ETF, with a closing plenary from Diane Dalby from the University of Nottingham. In the background, colleagues Alison Tanik and Lisa Sidwells from touchconsulting Ltd. will be assisting in Rooms 1 and 2 respectively. |
| Session 1: 10:00 - 11:00. 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 11:00 |
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| Room 1 | Room 2 |
| Julie Savage from Cambridge Regional College | Elaine Gates and Sam Amin from Christ the King Sixth Form College, Shooters Hill Sixth Form College, East Surrey College, St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College, Lewisham College |
| A unified approach: can collaboration between teachers and student engagement coaches impact learner engagement and motivation? | Improving the motivation and engagement of maths GCSE resit students in FE Colleges by using maths mentors |
| Ashley Archer and Katie Fremlin from City College Plymouth | Margaret Lovick from New College Stamford |
| The power of coaching | How does using a maths in-lesson hub of specialist maths software and timely intervention from in-class maths specialist study mentors, impact how students engage with FS maths as they transition back to onsite delivery? |
| Break: 11:00 - 11:15. Please take a break and move rooms if needed. | |
| Session 2: 11:15 - 12:15. 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 |
| Dr Jane Kay from Nelson & Colne College and Blackburn College | Leigh McLachlan and Vanessa Grant from Grimsby Institute of Higher and Further Education |
| Tangible tools for developing confidence and resilience in GCSE maths resit learners. | Are there techniques that can enable students to become self-sufficient in reengaging with their GCSE maths studies? |
| Kate Griffiths, Carla Grady and Zoe Howarth from Runshaw College | Laura Skermer from Tameside College, Hopwood Hall College, Trafford College, Clarendon Sixth Form College |
| Using strategies based on the VESPA Mindset and GROW models to support student learning as part of a wider mastery approach. | How can developing teacher feedback and encouraging a growth mindset with post-16 GCSE maths resit students enable them to justify their answers in the classroom? |
| Lunch 12:15 - 12:45: Please take a break and move rooms if needed. |
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| Session 3: 12:45 - 2:30. Please choose one room for this session. |
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| Room 1 | Room 2 |
| Beka Zarnadze and Louise Brown from Harlow College, Capel Manor College and Buckinghamshire College Group | Nadra Sawirous, Judith Eland and Barbara Yates from Lakes College West Cumbria, Carlisle College, Kendal College, Lancaster and Morecambe College |
| Positive messaging and strategies to influence the students’ mindset | Impact of effort beliefs and growth mindset on mathematics achievement |
| George Higgitt from Leicester College | Markland and Kai Stengel from Preston College |
| Developing strategies that help students learn independently - growth mindset and flipped learning | How can embedding digital learning platforms in the GCSE maths resit curriculum impact learner participation and engagement? |
| Debbie Trueman, Mandeep Chawla, Nikita Nash, Mariam Rashid, Bonnie Smith, Karen Tobey and Mandy Woodward from Warwickshire College Group | Katie Fremlin and Ashley Archer from City College Plymouth |
| How does the use of physical algebra tiles have an impact on, and deepen students’ understanding of solving linear equations? | Alternative Learning Environments - Exploring maths teaching outside the traditional classroom environment |
| Cath Gladding from the Education & Training Foundation | Diane Dalby from the University of Nottingham |
| Plenary 2:15-2:30 | Plenary 2:15-2.30 |
4. Growing your FE Maths Community
We anticipate you’ll want to delve deeper and follow up on some of the brilliant action research findings. There are lots of ways you can do this.
- Follow and join in via social media conversations: #CfEMlive22, #CfEM and #FEmaths
- Get in touch with action research teams via the relevant CfEM lead/Area Relationship and Development Lead.
- Revisit the presentations and recordings from this CfEM Live conference. Videos available shortly on this landing page and on the Education and Training Foundation’s CfEM YouTube channel.
- Join the ETF’s Inside Scoop: 45-minute maths practitioner-led webinar series running in June and July showcasing ideas and approaches from CfEM.
- Attend the ETF’s two new free 90-minute webinars exploring how FE teachers can do research to improve their own practice: 11 and 13 July.
- Read the final 2021-2022 action research reports, written by FE maths teachers, available Autumn term 2022.
5. Padlet
Browse our Mathematical Resilience Padlet. It’s ready and waiting for videos and resources from today.
6. Resources and Research
Finally, do explore the resources and wider research that’s informed CfEM action research projects over the past four years. Click on the relevant image to access. Enjoy!
