cognitive acceleration
DEVELOPING CHILDREN'S THINKING
A typical CAME training day
- Discussion of recent classroom practice, including sharing of written or other evidence of student learning (eg reflective journal entries, student work samples, photographs or video clips, etc)
- Group discussion of pedagogical or related mathematical issue eg the relative merits of independent work, whole class teaching and collaborative groupwork; or what are the common logical confusions for students in KS2 around decimals
- Tutor demonstrates lesson activities to course participants
- Participants select activity and prepare resources
- Groups team teach chosen lessons to a group of students, half the group acting as teachers, and half the group acting as observers
- Reflection on the lesson including drawing conclusions and evaluating delivery of the lesson
- Discussion of expected 'homework' (ie lesson experiments to be carried out)
