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An
Accelerated Curriculum for Able Students Who
Find Maths Challenging |
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School:
Chatham Grammar School for Boys, Kent |
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Fellow: Gary Wellings
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Email: gary.wellings@cgsb.co.uk |
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So Far: |
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As of January 2nd 2007 the format is complete.
The basic template is made that allows students
and teachers to navigate themselves through
the whole 2 years of the syllabus. I have
also completed the tests that allow students
and teachers to identify whether the students
preferred learning style is Visual, Audio
or Kinaesthetic. |
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When I started I envisioned inventing lots
of material to help students, but upon talking
to others, looking through libraries on such
literature and going to the internet, I have
seen that the material already exists. My
task has thus become how to make this material
available in an EASY format to students and
teachers. |
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Now I have completed the structure, it is
a case of adding to the 4 column with activities
that allow the students to progress at a rapid
rate.
It is important that the teachers teach the
students concepts, not skills. Knowing ‘why’
is more important that ‘how’,
nothing can take the place of a teacher knowing
his/her charges and their strengths and weaknesses. |
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As I have worked on this
project I now know what must be done. It has
helped me focus more on my students, think
about what they need to know, but also about
my teaching practice. |
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Future: |
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Between now and July I expect
to spend a few hours a week planning what
my students will do in detail, teach the lesson
and then evaluate it before putting it into
the final scheme. I will include them in the
review and by having student voice included
in the evaluation, it should make the process
more real. |
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As of yet I haven’t found
any good courses to use the Gatsby money,
but the main use I have for it is the Thursday
afternoon I have timetabled off to do my fellowship
(2K). The remaining £1000, I intend
to use in incorporating some IT software,
printing, discs and consumables. |
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The school is part of a consortium,
so I plan to share my work with them and then
hopefully they will take it on. I have created
a monster here, that I cannot contain, my
final vision is something that is more that
a mere 100 hours of work. It needs shaping,
personalising and tailoring. However, I hope
that others will see the benefit and will
see how students can be developed by it. |
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Looking to the future, it would
be an excellent idea to extend this to KS5,
where students can be identified and extended. |
