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...maths, science or history – the students are, in a sense, learning about that subject. That is, they are learning facts and skills, as well as learning how to interpret and apply that knowledge to new situations. In a modern language lesson, the students are not learning about the language, be it French, Spanish, German or Chinese. They are learning the language itself...

...Maths’ teachers and describes the approach she took. CLARE LEE Hi. I’m Clare Lee and I’m talking to Gill Adams on the phone about her research. Now I supervised her research, so I know quite a lot about it but not as much as Gill does. Because when you do a doctoral research, you’re the expert and Gill is the expert here. So, I will be asking her about the...

...maths which is a very great, an interesting programme, which is demystifying what maths is all about, but that’s a home based programme. Children take these kits home to work at home with them or they might have rhyme bags. We’ve got bilingual rhyme bags in East Renfrewshire, which is dual language books, so it’s encouraging a taste and an interest in another...

...maths, engineering, craft; he synthesised skills and talents from separate domains into integrated projects / ideas / objects’; ‘Salvador Dali – challenged conventional thinking about how the world is viewed; generated a style of imagery that is instantly characteristic’; ‘Tim Berners Lee (creator of the World Wide Web), Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvia Plath –...

...maths activity was something he felt was meaningless to him and it showed he had switched off from the lesson or the teacher. The triggers for Kyle’s behaviour could have been the lack of positive engagement by the teacher, or as a result of Kyle’s home circumstances and his late arrival to the class. Maybe both the teacher and Kyle could have handled things...

...Maths exams’.]...Leadership for inclusion: what you can do?: 4.1 Understanding the best option - There are various terms which can be applied to practitioners who are seeking to lead on issues of equity in their everyday lives. One such is Teacher activist. Teacher activists often draw upon feminist and critical pedagogies with a strong focus on social justice. For...