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‘Ready
to go’ interactive mathematics lesson
starter material |
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School:
Gosford Hill School, Kidlington |
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Fellow: Alan Slater |
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Email: alaneslater@hotmail.com |
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Objectives |
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With school students, to design, develop
and deliver a set of starters that can be
used in KS3 maths lessons. |
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What is working well? |
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Developing and testing examples with different
templates, student enthusiasm, staff interest,
using/piloting elements of new technology,
showing off examples to visitors. |
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Publicity in international conferences and
exhibitions (e.g. 7th International Maths
and Computing Technology conference 2005;
Handheld learning London conference 2005;
BETT Jan 2006). |
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Commissioned to write four short stories
in the Times Education Supplement. |
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Commissioned to write a story on a piece
of technology I am using for the TES Online
and TES BETT media pack. |
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Commissioned by Open University Press to
write a piece on using technology in school. |
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Provided advice to the DfES on education
Outside the Classroom Consultation Manifesto. |
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Early positive interest from an educational
materials publisher to develop this further. |
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Built a website for my Gatsby Fellowship. |
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Invested in various materials for the project
including DVDs, maths starters from colleagues,
books, pamphlets, the internet e.g. open university,
BBC, MyMaths, Funbrian, and LEA resources. |
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What is working less well? |
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I am using what may be called leading edge
technology, yet there is limited technical
assistance in school so I have to buy it myself
outside school- the technology I am using
seems to be beyond the school's technical
ability to sort it out! |
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Getting Bluetooth and Wifi working consistently. |
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What are your major frustrations
with it? |
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Nothing major but I would like to have extra
funding to develop this further e.g. a few
more pocket PCs to try this on, and to pay
for adequate technical support. |
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What is giving you the most satisfaction
and pleasure? |
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Seeing what others are doing in lesson starters
and trying that out and then realizing that
what we are doing is even better, more engaging,
more interesting. |
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Seeing the variety of student ideas. |
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Seeing the students’ responses to
the project at each stage- the team helping
and the students in classes. |
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Seeing and nurturing student skills in project
development and management. |
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Sharing ideas with colleagues in and beyond
the subject. |
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Piloting the technology and templates. |
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The next steps |
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Continue to progress with the current template
using spreadsheets and Flash format. |
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Develop 20 starters on both formats by Easter
2006. |
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Test these in classes, receive comments
on and improve where possible. |
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Anything else you would like to
tell us? |
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I am mentioning the Gatsby Teacher Fellowship
in all my publicity e.g. in the stories I
get published for the Times Educational Supplement,
going to visit education exhibitions, presenting
at conferences, appearing in the Oxford LEA
Education Magazine in January 2006. |
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Asking technology suppliers to provide free/complimentary
equipment-ongoing discussions and negotiations. |
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Continue to talk to a major educational
publisher about this developing material. |
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Won two international awards at the International
Maths and Computing Conference. |
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Invited to write two papers for publication
in the International Society for Technology
in education journals. |
