1. Teaching Styles – Broadening Practice Comberton Village College Susanne Mallett Mark Dawes Comberton Village College – 3 rd July 2009 Teacher Inspiration Day 3 – 3 rd July 2009

2. Background The department – very different! No “corporate” lesson Freedom to teach Culture of sharing NRICH Comberton Village College – 3 rd July 2009

3. What were we trying to achieve? enhance the well-established and successful scheme of work to reflect the new National Curriculum incorporate rich tasks from NRICH empower staff by giving them the skills to utilise rich tasks and problem solving in their classrooms support learners in functioning more mathematically Comberton Village College – 3 rd July 2009

4. How did we try to achieve it? not by making NRICH activities compulsory! excite, support and encourage colleagues Comberton Village College – 3 rd July 2009

5. What we did – overview Susanne was i/c NRICH –not HOD, but had HOD backing and time Initially Susanne passed on NRICH problems to us all Then department meeting to introduce problems Eventually … NRICH problems in the scheme of work –Susanne will give these later In the department meeting we were learners and we were teachers Comberton Village College – 3 rd July 2009

6. This Workshop Session In this session we will need to: act as pupils behave as colleagues & teachers be the teacher i/c NRICH at our school enjoy exploring more NRICH Comberton Village College – 3 rd July 2009