Episodes
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Programme 318, Claire Corroon on Teaching Maths, pt 2 (28-2-18)
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with primary teacher and mathematics teacher educator, Claire Corroon. You can access resources and opinions about mathematics teaching on her website, Primary CPD. Among the topics we discuss this week are the following:
- Her Views on Curriculum Revision in primary mathematics
- Differentiation in mathematics
- Assessment in mathematics
- Mathematics curricula in other countries
- Jerome Bruner
- Singapore Maths
- Sherry Parrish (https://twitter.com/numbertalks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
- Jo Boaler
- Marilyn Burns
- Christina Tondevold
- Graham Fletcher (three act tasks for maths)
- The usefulness of mini-whiteboards
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Programme 317, Claire Corroon on Teaching Maths (21-2-18)
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week my guest on the programme is Claire Corroon a primary teacher and teacher educator with a particular interest in mathematics education. She has many resources on her website, Primary CPD, where she also blogs. In this, the first part of our interview, among the topics discussed are:
- How she got involved in mathematics education
- Courses she gives for teachers in summer and at evenings
- Number talks
- Concrete, pictorial and abstract representations in mathematics
- Her approach to teaching tables
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Programme 316, Alf Coles, part 2 (14-2-18)
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I conclude my interview with Dr. Alf Coles from the School of Education at the University of Bristol. Among the topics we discuss this week are:
- Planning for the unexpected in mathematics classes
- His work with the charity “Five by Five by Five Equals Creativity”
- Using Cuisenaire rods and a tens chart to teach mathematics
- How the number naming system in the English language makes learning mathematics more difficult and what you can do about it
- Using the tens chart to teach decimals
- How our current curriculum limits children’s understanding of number
- Creativity in primary school mathematics
- What inspires him
- Whose work in education he likes to read
- What he would change about his current institution
- How his own schooling influences his practice in education today
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Programme 315, Teachers Learning from Video and the work of Caleb Gattegno (7-2-18)
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Dr. Alf Coles from the University of Bristol School of Education. Among the topics discussed are:
- What teachers learn from using video
- Responding to video through description versus judgment
- Using video clubs for teacher professional development
- The centre for researching education across boundaries
- Who was Caleb Gattegno
- What is the Silent Way of learning a language
- What is an energy budget for learning?
- Four stages of awareness
- Inventing the geoboard
- Book, What we owe children by Caleb Gattegno
- How he became a teacher educator
- How he balances his teaching and research work
- How he practices teacher education
- Greg Simon’s blog: https://gregsimonmusic.com/blog/
- Gregory Bateson: https://mri.org/gregory-bateson/