Vocational Revitaliser: an introduction (Maths) Learning Outcomes
Vocational Revitaliser: an introduction (Maths) are one day courses to support mathematics learning and development. We offer a menu of courses including:
- Early Years
- Early Years and Health and Social Care
- Land Based Studies
- Open context (for practitioners from a range of different vocational areas
- Joint English and maths (half day open context English, half day open context maths)*
Practitioners working in the further education and skills sector who are employed by a SFA-funded organisation.
- Vocational lecturers
- Workplace trainers
- Assessors
- Learning support assistants
- Develop your personal maths & maths teaching skills and confidence
- Self-assess your personal maths skills
- Develop key mathematical ideas relevant to the learners you work with
- Explore strategies for engaging learners
- Explore appropriate mathematical learning resources for your subject
Vocational Revitaliser: an introduction (Maths) are blended-learning programmes. Participants will undertake and/or access:
- a (confidential) self-assessment of their own Maths abilities and confidence;
- signposting to online learning to develop their personal Maths
- a short pre-session task;
- a full day with other vocational practitioners in their area, developing skills and confidence to support learners’ Maths learning; and
- a national forum to share ideas and approaches.
Maths full day outline – Early Years example
Time | Activity |
9.30 – 10.00 | Arriving |
10.00 – 10.25 | Introduction (5 mins) Human graphs (10 mins) Pick a number (10 mins) |
10.25 – 11.15 | Thinking about a positive learning experience (15 mins) Picturing the maths in Early Years – what maths are the adults doing (15 mins) Picturing the maths in Early Years – what maths are the children doing and how are the adults supporting them? (15 mins) Creating an upward spiral – effective ways of teaching maths. (10 mins) Mathematical resilience and drawing it all together (15 mins) |
11.15 – 11.30 | Play National Numeracy video as people return from break Break |
11.30 – 1.00 | Evaluating statements about number operations (25 mins) Into pairs using algebraic statements (5 mins) Fermi tasks: Jelly beans (25 mins) Into pairs using shapes and names (5 mins) Math puzzle (25 mins) |
1.00 | Lunch – think of a top tip, good resource, problem you want answering. Gap minder video as people return from lunch |
2.00 – 2.25 | Hopping (10 mins) Making sense of the data (15 mins) |
2.25 – 2.50 | The problem page Top tip Recommend a resource |
2.50 – 3.15 | The Great Elf Game (25 mins) |
3.15 – 3.40 | Looking at the resources and extending and adapting – making into a Fermi task or a game. |
3.40 – 4.00 | Review Day Evaluation Wool activity |