Description
The first few minutes of a lesson are critical. Whether you call it a Warm Up or Mental, what matters is that it is focussed.
Warm Ups tend to fall in one of three categories: -
Yesterday - reviewing content previously taught, e.g. basic numbers facts reading time on a clock
Today - Linking into the lesson about to be taught. For example, if teaching converting from centimetres to metres and vice versa the Warm Up might be about multiplying and dividing by 100
Tomorrow - Preloading some content required in the near future. An example might be developing maths vocabulary.
This session is NOT about just collecting a bunch of short Warm Up activities, but rather about how to effectively plan for and use Warm Ups in the classroom. Activities involving simple materials and simple formats, or routines will be used to illustrate key ideas.
Presenters
David Dunstan (AISWA Staff)
Numeracy Coordinator
David is the AISWA Numeracy Coordinator and has worked with AISWA for over 13 years. He taught mathematics to rural students in WA for 28 years. David regularly presents at state and national conferences, and delivers ‘hands-on’ workshops, which includes, “A Whole School Approach to Teaching Place Value” and “Using Cards and Counters to Link the Proficiencies”. In collaboration with Dr Paul Swan, David has co-authored 27 books, which includes the “Check the Clues” series, “My Word Book: Mathematics” and the 2023 published, “Teaching Place Value” series.
Dr Paul Swan
Dr Paul Swan has many years of experience having taught at the primary secondary and tertiary level. He has written many books and games and created resources to help support teachers and the teaching of mathematics. His website www.drpaulswan.com.au contains many further support materials, many which are free.
He is the recipient of many awards, the most recent being for the development and publishing of Bond Blocks. Recently he has developed video PL courses and offers live and pre-recorded video PL as well as face to face PL.
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Segments
Event Segment
Date / Time
30 Mar 2021 Starts: 08:45 Finishes: 11:45Delivery Format : In Person
AISWA Training Room Suite 1
PL Hours : 3.00
Learning Area
- Mathematics
- Numeracy
School Area
- Middle Primary (3-6)
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Year 4
- Year 5
- Year 6