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Modelling Tasks Lessons Assessment Reflecting
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Session 1
Feedback from students and parents
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Objectives
You will have an opportunity to consider possible reactions to modelling from students and parents and how to deal with them.
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Outcomes
You will produce:• lists of arguments that students and parents might
have for and against modelling
• a list of strategies you might use to cope with students and parents who do not like modelling.
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Discussion
Reflect on any feedback you have had from students, parents or colleagues about your implementation of modelling in your mathematics lessons.
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Possible discussion
Imagine ....you have tried integrating modelling tasks into your mathematics lessons. After a lesson some students who do not like these tasks come to you to complain.
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Activity 2
RoleplayWork in pairs – one of you should be a teacher in favour of modelling, the other should be a student who does not like modelling.Write down some arguments supporting your position.Argue with your colleague.
DiscussionHow did you feel during the roleplay?Whose arguments were most convincing?
Develop the list of arguments that might convince students about the value of modelling in mathematics
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Activity 3
Focus on parents
Alternative A Alternative B
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Activity 3 (A)
Discussion
Imagine ....you try to integrate modelling into mathematics lessons and after some time there is a parents‘ evening at which a number of parents tell you that they do not like the new methods and do not understand why you have changed your way of teaching. They say,•the teacher should explain the rules of mathematics first•weak students need rules and procedures they can work with
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Activity 3 (A)
Work in groups to prepare responses to the parents.
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Activity 3 (B)
• Imagine there is a parents‘ consultation at your school. Some parents do not understand why you are using a modelling approach in your mathematics lessons.
• The whole group will have a debate. Four participants will take the role of questioning parents who are quite negative about modelling. Four will take the role of teachers who support modelling.
• Each group should take up to five minutes to put their case. This can be followed by a period of question and answer.
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Activity 4
Discussion
Why might some students / parents react negatively towards modelling?
The thoughts of some students are given in Resource R.2.1.
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Activity 4
What are students‘ beliefs about mathematics?
How do students develop their beliefs?
How do students react to modelling tasks?
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Activity 4
Discussion
What can be done in order to avoid negative reactions to modelling by students and parents?
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Activity 5
Consider ways in which you might inform parents about modelling and its role in mathematics.
You could:• prepare a poster• prepare a powerpoint presentation• write a letter that could be sent home• make a small booklet
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Objectives
You will have an opportunity to consider possible reactions to modelling from students and parents and how to deal with them.
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Teacher diaries
Don‘t forget to use your teacher diary to:• Reflect on the session• Collect and record useful material that may have been
developed by you and colleagues
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Objectives
You will have an opportunity to reflect upon and consider the way in which features of the organisation in which you work might hinder you in your attempts to integrate modelling into your classroom practice.
You will discuss ways of overcoming constraints.
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Outcomes
You will produce a poster of possible organisational constraints that might hinder the introduction of modelling into mathematics teaching and learning and ways that these might be overcome.
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Activity 1
Discusssion (using think – pair – share)
Consider how features of your school might make the introduction of modelling in mathematics teaching problematic.
How can difficulties be overcome?
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Activity 1
Discusssion
What aspects of the organisational structures and frameworks of schools can hinder the integration of modelling into mathematics lessons?
How can these be overcome?
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Activity 2
Watch a video of a teacher who worked to overcome constraints that might have stopped her integrating modelling into her teaching.
Are her suggestions likely to be useful in your situation?
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Outcomes
You will produce a poster of possible organisational constraints that might hinder the introduction of modelling into mathematics teaching and learning and ways that these might be overcome.
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Objectives
You will have an opportunity to reflect upon and consider the way in which features of the organisation in which you work might hinder you in your attempts to integrate modelling into your classroom practice.
You will discuss ways of overcoming constraints.
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