Session 2: Formative Assessment 

Find a resource, for example an article or video, that you think would be useful to share with your stage around formative assessment. Feel free to review previous pages on the Weebly for inspiration, such as  Add the resource to the following GDoc: 

Session 3: High Potential and Gifted Education 

Grab a cup of tea and have a listen to this  podcast from CESE around high potential and gifted education.
With your current class in mind, what changes might you make to your practice from listening to the podcast? Record your reflections in this GForm. 

Lunch Break

Session 4: Number Talks
Number talks are designed to provide students with short, regular opportunities to develop efficient number sense and mathematical reasoning, to visualise problem solving, and to explain their thinking (Parrish & Dominick, 2016).

Read the article 'Number Talks Build Numerical Reasoning' by Sherry Parish
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The Number Talks Process

It is important that the protocols and process of number talks are explicitly taught to students when introducing number talks for the first time. 

1. A number problem, or number stimulus, is posed to the class.

2.Thinking time is given to the students to respond to the stimulus, or solve the number problem mentally (without the use of mini whiteboards)

​3. Students indicate how many strategies they have discovered to solve the problem by placing that many fingers or their chest.

4.  One student at a time shares the strategy they have used with the whole class. The teacher scribes the student response without comment. 

​5. The teacher facilitates a whole class discussion, agreeing on the most appropriate and efficient strategies used for that problem.