Teaching for Mastery EYFS Primary Secondary Post-16 LLME

Oracy

We will explore the use of Oracy to support mathematical understanding in the classroom.

‘Most reasoning remains invisible ‘ it stays inside people’s heads. In order for students to improve their reasoning, it needs to be made visible and audible ‘ through oral or written explanations.’
Improving Reasoning: Analysing Alternative Approaches. Malcolm Swan 2011 revised 2016

Would you agree with this quotation from Swan’s article? Which pedological strategies do you currently use to encourage pupil reasoning? Are all the children in your class happy to share their reasoning or are some more reticent? This is an opportunity for you to work alongside other teachers to research and explore different pedagogical strategies and to determine which you believe, from your observations, impact most positively on different attainment groups.

We will look at:

Through the Teaching for Mastery Programme, we aim to support schools to deepen students’ understanding of maths by using strategies for Oracy to develop students’ reasoning skills and to support them in making connections with mathematical structure.

We will consider pedagogical strategies, that participants will experiment with, and the impact that the specific pedagogy of Oracy can have on students’ mathematical thinking and securing understanding.

There will also be some sessions on specific areas of Oracy for you to sign up to. Information about these is available on the right. To sign up you can email office@originmathshub.tgacademy.org.uk

Oracy – Dates and Venues TBC

Impact and Resources

We are so proud of the work we have been able to do, please see below some video shorts from our two Work Group leads discussing the impact of the programme.