26-8846-SPR- PMC & SSE - Encouraging Playfulness - (2 Part Webinar)

 

 

 

 

 

PMC & SSE - Encouraging Playfulness (2 Part Webinar)

Target Audience:

Suitable for School leaders, Maths Post-holders, SETs and Primary Teachers of all classes

Wednesday the 18th and 25th March - 7.00pm to 8.00pm

Learning Outcomes/Learning Intentions of the webinar:

Specific Curricular Alignment (SSE): 
Gain insights into using the PMC as a basis for School Self-Evaluation (SSE) by selecting specific goals and actions related to playfulness.

Pedagogical Understanding: 

• Understand the role of playfulness as one of the five key pedagogical practices in the Primary Mathematics Curriculum (PMC).
• Recognize the shift from "Aistear" to a broader ethos of play that applies to all primary classes and subjects, not just the infant years.
• Appreciate how encouraging playfulness naturally links with and enables other key pedagogies, fostering an inclusive and rich learning environment.

Practical Classroom Strategies: 

• Identify practical actions  to provide students with autonomous and creative access to diverse resources and equipment.
• Learn to implement instructional routines that promote reasoning and play, such as "Build it, Sketch it, Write it!" and "Notice & Wonder".
• Develop techniques to transform traditional tasks, such as using mini-whiteboards for textbook questions or turning lists of calculations into "number strings".
• Explore methods for integrating technology and literature, including using virtual manipulatives and children's stories to teach mathematical concepts.

Classroom Culture and Environment: 

• Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset by normalizing mistakes through activities like "My Favorite No" and by adopting "Ronda’s Four Freedoms".
• Understand how to create maths-rich environments, both indoors (e.g., sociodramatic play areas) and outdoors (e.g., maths trails and playground markings).
• Enhance teacher disposition by being playful in interactions, using puppets, props, and song/dance to engage students.

With Claire Corroon (B. Ed, M. Ed), the lead author of Maths and Me, an very experienced teacher, maths facilitator and author. 

She is currently SENCo, Deputy Principal and Maths Postholder, in St. Etchen's National School, Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath.

Since 2001, she has worked with schools and teachers, as well as facilitating face-to-face courses and webinars. As well as her involvement with Maths and Me, she was also one of the authors of Operation Maths and is the sole author of Number Facts, another Edco publication, which advocates and supports a new approach to the teaching of maths facts, also traditionally known as "tables". She has been involved in curriculum developments for over twenty years, having worked as a facilitator and curriculum support person with the PCSP (now Oide), as well as, in more recent years, being a representative on both the NCCA Schools Forum for the Redevelopment of the Primary School Curriculum and on the NCCA Primary Maths Curriculum Development Group. 

Total Duration: 1 hour via Zoom x 2 weeks

 A link to access the webinar will be emailed to you prior to the event.