Port Glasgow session
This morning I got up at the ungodly hour of 6am in order to be ferried to Haddington (thanks Elizabeth!) and thence in a Don Prentice bus to Port Glasgow for a morning of workshops on the effective use of interactive whiteboards in maths. The first session I attended was run by an enthusiastic chap (whose name I've failed to record). He spoke to us about the way that his department is using interactive whiteboards to support formative assessment developments: waiting times, questioning techniques, self/peer assessment, group/pair work etc. It was a fascinating session - these points stood out for me: Sharing learning objectives on first slide - flip back at end of lesson Pair work - one minute silent, then one minute discussing with partner using clock Pupils making up question - make up a trinomial that factorises! A thick white pen over text can be rubbed out to expose the text What really shone through the session was the extent to which the presenter's thinking was groun