Mathematics Focus Group
February 2014
Presented by: Dave Ryan
• 2011 – 2014 IEB NSC Mathematics Internal Moderator
• 2008 – 2011 IEB NSC Mathematics Internal Moderator
• 2006 – 2007 IEB Matric Mathematics Internal Moderator
• 2003 – 2005 IEB Matric Mathematics Portfolio Moderator
• 2000 – 2002 IEB Matric Mathematics HG Paper 2 Examiner
• 1997 – 1999 IEB Matric Mathematics HG Paper 1 Examiner
• Presently: Working for The Royal Bafokeng Institute
• Previously: Deputy Principal St Stithians Boys College
• HOD Mathematics St Stithians Boys College
• HOD Mathematics Hilton College
• College
Dave Ryan
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
Section 14
Public schools on private property
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The education system is broken…
Matric Results 2013\Copy of NSC2013 Subject stats.xlsx
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
The education system is broken…
• Stop the bleeding
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
The education system is broken…
One day a man planted a bamboo seedling. He cared deeply for it, so each day he watered it and tended to it, always making sure it had the proper sunlight to grow. After a year's time, the man saw that the plant had not grown at all, but he continued to water it, tend to it, and make sure it was nourished by proper sunlight. Again, after the second year the plant had not grown. He watered and tended it through the third year and the fourth. Suddenly, as if by magic, in the fifth it began growing. In fact, it grew two and a half feet a day until in six weeks it was ninety feet tall.
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
Long term it is all about the teacher and the journey towards optimal classroom practice
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
We must recruit young, dedicated, talented individuals into the teaching profession…and mentor them…Gordon is the future
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
Lesson study
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Short term…get to the kids
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Mathematics
Procedures
Thinking Application
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
Mathematics
Procedures
Thinking
Application
Teachers plan a lesson together with or without
Dave
Lesson conducted which Dave
videos.. Focus on children’s learning not the teaching
Teachers and Dave reflect
Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
Collaboration with…
• Teachers…lesson study
• Schools…extra teachers…Charora…dedicated time for CPTD
• DoBE…
• Business…people not buildings
• Universities…recruit the top of the pile into teaching, not…a different model for teacher training
• Questions?
RBI/Education/Q0013 Growth curves
Boys 2-20
A Shayer model of Learning