PL Courses | Structuring High-Quality Lessons | After-school PL

Course Description

In this course, Anita will focus on the three pillars of high-quality maths lessons K-6: tasks, tools and talk. She will explain her easy-to-implement 5-part lesson structure which incorporates these three pillars. Participants will experience hands-on tasks as ‘students’ while Anita demonstrates practical classroom strategies to support their implementation as the ‘teacher’, including how teachers can incorporate differentiation and make judgements about their students’ understanding along the way.

Learning Goals

By the end of the course, participants will:

• understand Anita’s 5-part lesson structure for maths K-6 and the typical timing of the 5 parts of the lesson across a week of teaching
• understand the different purposes of the lesson warm-up and Anita’s top five strategies for delivering lesson warm-ups
• have strategies to introduce new maths content using whole-class instruction, as well as strategies to lead the teacher-led practice and student-centred practice parts of maths lessons.

Related Elements of Anita Chin’s Primary Mathematics Framework 

Delivery Model

This course is delivered as an after-school customised workshop at your school for your whole staff. It is suitable for early career teachers, experienced teachers, learning support educators, maths leaders and school leaders.

You can choose either a 2-hour or 3-hour course. If you choose the 3-hour option there will be more time for discussion and delving deeper into syllabus content. In addition, Anita will assist your staff to develop a consistent whole-school approach to high-quality teaching and learning of maths.