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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
Teaching for Mastery
Friday 24 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 Teaching for Mastery: enabling students to develop fluency and understanding of key ideas and mathematical structure. We are 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. 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 & timetable. We’ve got three fabulous sessions for you today, each focused around some aspect of Teaching for Mastery. 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 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 Friday 24 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 Steve Pardoe. 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 |
| For participants in Room 2, please complete this Menti question ahead of Newham, Lambeth & CONEL's presentation. | |
| Byron Sheffield and Peter Harvey-Hill from Leyton Sixth Form College | Katy Sillem, Sonia McKenzie, Zara Ali, Jane Mensah and Elaine Gates from Christ the King Sixth Form College, Shooters Hill Sixth Form College, East Surrey College, South Thames Colleges |
| Effective use of representatives to support learners understanding with groups containing some or all Grade 3 students | Using physical manipulatives to boost student engagement in GCSE post-16 maths: Professional challenges and student perceptions. |
| Monika Bolton from Cambridge Regional College | Liz Hopker, Ela Grzybek and Mahdi Radmehr from Newham College, Lambeth College, CONEL College |
| The benefits and challenges of working together on team teaching and use of manipulatives. | Using mastery based approaches to improve the progress of FS Level 1 achievers towards GCSE grade 4: identifying skill gaps and mapping across skillsets through bar modelling, variation and collaboration |
| 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 |
| Eleftheria Bourtzinakou from Gateshead College | Rebecca Atherfold and Samuel Winter from Newham College |
| Developing Mathematical Reasoning; Apply the CPA model to improve students’ performance on Reasoning and Problem-Solving questions. | Deepening understanding of percentages with students below GCSE Grade 3: using Concrete Pictorial Abstract approach and real life examples |
| Nicola Pearton, Shirley Tonge and Amy West from Greater Brighton Metropolitan College | Katheryn Cockerton, Helen Fuggle, Elaine Fletcher and Kelly Henderson from Weston College of Further & Higher Education |
| No more blank spaces:A toolkit to help students tackle multi-mark measurement questions | To explore the effectiveness of using representations in an FE setting |
| 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 |
| Fiona Dixon, Anna Lister, Karen Scarr and Emma Robson from Lakes College West Cumbria | Ben Smith from Leeds City College |
| Exploring the use of technology to creatively support students on lower-level maths courses move through states of liminality | The semantics of mathematics: Does improving mathematical vocabulary improve attainment in GCSE maths resit learners? |
| Glenn Cowlan from Leicester College | Katheryn Cockerton, Inyoung Sutton Jones, Seema Shelat and Rebecca Ito from Weston College of Further & Higher Education, Gloucester College, Heart of Worcester College & Yeovil College |
| How do we embed contextualised learning through collaboration to support progress in maths learning? | How do maths Maths teachers, vocational teachers and learners work together in using Maths Mastery? |
| Beka Zarnadze and Michael Lancaster from Harlow College, Northampton College & USP | Gayle Gothard, Janet Preedy and Laura Billington from Nelson & Colne College Group |
| Mathematics in context- Do ratio tables help students make sense of maths problems? | How do workshops, designed using a Maths Mastery approach, delivered in weekly small group sessions in addition to discrete classes, impact learners on a post-16 GCSE maths resit course? |
| Cath Gladding from the Education & Training Foundation | Steve Pardoe from the Education & Training Foundation |
| 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 Teaching for Mastery 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!
