Making the Grade post-16 GCSE Resit Maths D to C grade... Julia Smith Twitter: @tessmaths makingthegraded2c.wordpress.com
Making the Grade post-16
GCSE Resit Maths
D to C grade...
Julia Smith
Twitter: @tessmaths
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• Draws from
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• Influenced by The Policy Exchange
• Pedagogical Principles from the Eight
Effective Principles of Teaching
Mathematics by Malcolm Swan
Research based Scheme of Work
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• Build on prior knowledge
• Expose & discuss misconceptions
• Develop Effective Questioning
• Use co-operative small group work
• Emphasise methods rather than answers
• Use Rich Collaborative Tasks
• Create connections between mathematical topics
• Use technology in appropriate ways
The Eight Effective Principles of Teaching
Mathematics - Malcolm Swan
The Facts
The Facts
The Facts #eek
The Facts #eek2
• Some students having sat GCSE 10 times
• Towns are gridlocked with traffic on exam
days
• Classes of 47+ students...its ok though...they
don’t all turn up!
• Cost of tables, chairs, halls, calculators,
protractors
• Invigilators
• Courses are closing
The reality...
• The FE system runs for £4bn
• Universities have an annual income of £30bn
• In 2013-14, there were 1.3m full-time and
556,000 part-time British students at UK
universities
• In the same year, 2.9m adults were at
further education colleges
• YOU DO THE MATHS...double the students
1/7 of the money
The Landscape
• FE is resilient and proactive
• FE faces the challenge head on
with aggressively obstinate
students who don’t want to be
there... and often aren’t
• FE Vocational Staff are teaching
GCSE
• FE is not a miracle worker...
The Further Education Sector
On a post-it note please write down
what a student will say if you ask
them that question
Share your ideas on your table
Any commonalities?
Why did they get a D?
n What is that student like?
n How do they behave?
n What are the characteristics?
n Plea from an FE teacher...
A post-16 student
n They have seen all the maths before, over
a number of years - they have a D grade!
n They can do some maths and they can’t do
some bits
n They will have forgotten stuff since June
n Some will still have resat multiple times
n They don’t feel too good about this
Key Points
n The Scheme of Work has to have some key features and
be presented in a different way. What didn’t work
before will not work again! It has to look different.
n Recall
n Routine
n Revise
n Repeat
n Ready
A Bespoke Diet- the 5 R’s
• Recall– a fast ‘n furious starter
– name the 1st 20 prime numbers
– draw the parts of a circle
– sketch & name all the quadrilaterals
– based on MA 48 Killer Facts for a C grade
• Routine• practice, practice, practice
– Corbett maths 5-a-day
– Just Maths Bread & Butter
– 30 second challenges
– m4ths.com challenges
Recall & Routine
• Revise the key C/D borderline topics• Hegarty Maths & Corbett Maths videos
• Just Maths Top 40
• m4ths.com Help Sheet
• Resourceaholic
• Repeat• prethomeworks
• Corbett maths practice questions
• Topic questions
• Studymaths.co.uk
Revise & Repeat
• Complete Passport
• Complete Help Sheet
• Complete Symballoo
• Past Papers
• Miss B’s Resources Quick Wits Revision
Ready?
• Corbett Maths Symballoo
• M4ths Help Sheet
• Passport to Success
• Admit/Exit tickets
• Run a bespoke Revision Year
• GCSE Express
• Growth Mindset work
• Higher Paper
• Maths Leaders
• Be creative - work in a different way
• CPD - NCETM Maths Pipeline
• Maths Grads into FE
• So what do we do?
• Be Creative
• Be Creative
• So what do we do?
• Homework
• Mathematical Association Postcards
• QR reader for Starters
• Twitter, Moodle & Edmodo
• Whole Organisational Approach
• Everyone maths teacher
• So what do we do?
• So what else can we do?
• Over to you...
• A perfect storm is coming...
• Exams, staff, attendance, results
• It is tantamount to child cruelty with
current exam logistics that are only
going to get worse
• One has to question why are we going
to all this effort for so little success!
• In Summary...
• As Mark McCourt says...
• Teach them really really well and
make them really really bright...
• Then we don’t need to see them
A plea from a GCSE Resit classes to KS4