Designing Challenge into your Curriculum
Queens University Belfast gave us the following feedback on their workshop:
It improved understanding of how to overcome difficulties in challenging students, and highlighted the importance of providing appropriate levels of challenge in the classroom. The case studies were very useful.
PGCE and ITE students
We recently spent some time in Belfast working with 169 Secondary PGCE students about to start their first school placement. The theme of the day was embedding literacy and numeracy within every subject context. As part of the day’s input we explored some summaries of teacher research written to support other teachers’ learning relating to supporting literacy and numeracy within a range of subjects. The students really enjoyed the summaries and you might too! Here are the links to these summaries:
An Examination into the Effectiveness of Different Reading Strategies at Key Stage 3
Can creative projects improve the language and literacy skills of our pupils
Making the strange familiar emphasising the role of mathematics across the curriculum
Mathematics curriculum discontinuity on secondary transfer
Promoting students’ persistence in meeting learning challenges
Teaching strategies to improve writing in mathematics
Use of two dimensional representations to aid the transition from arithmetic to algebra
What impact can developments in literacy teaching have on teaching and learning in history
Find out more about the event in Philippa’s November blog at: http://www.curee.co.uk/philippa-blog