Making Every Maths Lesson Count : Six Principles to Support Great Maths Teaching

by Emma Mccrea, Shaun Allison (Editor), Andy Tharby (Editor)

Overview

Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, experienced maths teacher and lecturer Emma McCrea takes away the guesswork as she sums up the key components of effective maths teaching. Making Every Maths Lesson Count is underpinned by six pedagogical principles - challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning - and shares 52 high-impact strategies designed to streamline teacher workload and ramp up the level of challenge in the classroom. Packed with numerous worked examples to demonstrate the theory in practice, this gimmick-free guide provides sensible solutions to perennial problems and -inspires a rich, challenging and evidence-based approach to the teaching of maths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785833328
Publisher:	Crown House Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	03/28/2019
Series:	Making Every Lesson Count
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Shaun Allison leads on CPD in his school and is interested in supporting teachers to grow and develop their classroom practice. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Perfect Teacher-Led CPD and a popular speaker. Shaun's background is in science teaching and he is currently deputy head teacher at Durrington High School.Andy Tharby, a practising English teacher, is a research lead with an interest in helping ordinary classroom teachers enhance their practice through engagement with a wider evidence base. His well-regarded blog, Reflecting English, covers a range of subjects from improving student writing to finding solutions to the problems and dilemmas faced by busy teachers.

Andy Tharby is a practising English teacher with over a decade's classroom experience at a secondary school in West Sussex. He is co-author of the award winning Making Every Lesson Count and the author of Making Every English Lesson Count. Andy is also interested in helping fellow teachers enhance their practice through engagement with research evidence.

Table of Contents

Foreword Dylan Wiliam i

Acknowledgements v

Introduction 1

1 Challenge 15

2 Explanation and Modelling 39

3 Practice 81

4 Questioning 109

5 Feedback 131

Final Thoughts 155

Appendix: Index of Strategies 157

Bibliography 161