1. The demand for resources.
2. Using problems sets.
3. Getting organised (including schemes of work).
I also hash out how to part additional resources amongst students, which I didn't direct keep fourth dimension to comprehend at the conference.
I precisely desire to clarify something earlier I start - resources are helpful, but inwards my heed at that topographic point is null to a greater extent than of import than clarity of explanation. Good H5N1 grade teachers direct keep audio champaign of written report noesis as well as know how to explicate things well. Please don't intend that my focus on resources at the conference suggests that I intend that resources accept precedence! They don't. They're prissy to direct keep though.
Is the textbook enough?
I started my workshop past times discussing the demand for H5N1 grade resources. I oftentimes live on H5N1 grade textbook exercises for exercise inwards class, but create I demand anything else?
To respond that inquiry let's hold back at my typical lesson structure. I don't create anything revolutionary inwards my H5N1 grade pedagogy - no flipped learning, no enquiry - my mode is fairly traditional. I'm non proverb this is the best agency to learn H5N1 level, it's precisely the agency I teach.
In my workshop I shared 3 activities from MEI as well as asked delegates to hash out whether they'd live on these, as well as how they could live on them. For illustration I oftentimes live on the get-go action below (Logs True or False past times Susan Wall) equally a quick refresher (ie a starter), but it also plant good for formative assessment (perhaps amongst mini-whiteboards) and/or basic skills practice.
The coordinate geometry resource higher upward plant good inwards a consolidation lesson - students depict their working diagram inwards the middle of A3 newspaper as well as stick each occupation (and their answers) around the border inwards the club they completed the tasks. The thought is to acquire them thinking virtually the data they demand to respond each question.
Problem sets
Time is a huge occupation inwards H5N1 grade teaching. At my previous schoolhouse nosotros had 8 lessons a fortnight (split 5/3 betwixt ii teachers) inwards both Year 12 as well as Year 13. This merely was non plenty fourth dimension to learn 3 modules. I was ever rushing through topics as well as oftentimes stressed virtually running out of time. At my novel schoolhouse nosotros acquire to a greater extent than fourth dimension (10 lessons a fortnight inwards Year 12 as well as nine lessons a fortnight inwards Year 13) - this is much better, though I nonetheless experience some fourth dimension pressure. I'd honey to pass fourth dimension on occupation solving but 'getting through the examination specification' takes priority. For the strange occasion when I create acquire the chance to create some occupation solving amongst my students, I've collated a publish of problems sets (suitable for GCSE as well as AS level):
- Pythagoras -> PowerPoint // PDF
- Indices -> PowerPoint // PDF
- Surds -> PowerPoint // PDF
- Quadratics -> PowerPoint // PDF
- Equation of a circle -> PowerPoint // PDF
Getting organised
When I was Key Stage five Coordinator I went into schoolhouse during the summertime holidays as well as spent a solar daytime downloading as well as organising hundreds of H5N1 grade resources. This saves everyone a lot of fourth dimension as well as endeavor during term time. I organised these resources past times topic on the schoolhouse network as well as added them to my school's H5N1 grade Schemes of Work. I've moved schools straight off but took all the files amongst me (attendees at my conference session were given my extensive C1/C2 resources files equally a give thank yous you for coming!).
Extract from C2 Scheme of Work |
Some schools don't live on schemes of piece of work for H5N1 level. It's non a necessity similar it is at Key Stage 3 as well as GCSE. I was lucky that nosotros had fantabulous schemes of piece of work at my previous schoolhouse which contained lots of links to resources - these were gear upward as well as regularly updated past times my colleagues.
At the terminate of my workshop a delegate asked if I'd part these schemes of piece of work as well as I promised I would, thence here's C1 - C4 for yous to borrow as well as edit. None of the hyperlinks volition piece of work inwards these documents because they were linked to the schoolhouse network, non the internet, but at to the lowest degree it's a starting indicate for the structure.
Incidentally, if I were starting a resources collection from scratch thence I'd see using Pinterest or Pealrtrees to concord my collection because I honey the 'snapshot' format.
Sharing resources amongst students
Consider setting upward a weblog or Twitter occupation organisation human relationship for your students - accept students to an information technology Room as well as acquire them to follow the occupation organisation human relationship or register for e-mail updates to ensure yous acquire an audience. Publish essential data (eg assessment dates, homework deadlines) as well as hand access to resources, tips, enrichment as well as thence on. In the twelvemonth that I was Key Stage five Coordinator, I wrote a Sixth Form Maths Blog - it has been abandoned straight off I've left the school, which is a shame because I was actually proud of it. It was a groovy agency to encourage independent learning as well as to hand students opportunities to improve. Below is an illustration post thence yous tin come across how I shared resources amongst students. If yous desire to come across an illustration Twitter occupation organisation human relationship for students, hold back at @MathsNewVic.
So that's it! I hope these ii posts direct keep helped yous inwards creating or enhancing your collection of H5N1 grade resources. If yous attended my workshop I hope yous institute it useful. Please comment below to part anything adept that I've missed - I'd honey to come across your favourite resources as well as listen virtually what yous do.