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The mathematics design team worked together from May 2001. They worked both as a
whole group at the University and on a one-one basis.
The whole group work was aimed at
developing a framework for the subject design initiatives and at sharing best practice.
The one-one work involved a teacher and a researcher working in partnership on the
development and evaluation of a particular design initiative.
Digital video was used
to record the teaching and learning processes in each teacher's classroom. The analysis and sharing of this became a focus for ongoing professional development.
What Ellie Coombs, John Cabot CTC, said about working within the InterActive project:
"I'd just finished my 4 th year of teaching and it was that stage when you want to do something different for a start and also it was quite a long time since I had done my PGCE and when you do your PGCE you do a lot of thinking about your lessons....When you are getting into a classroom?.because you have so little time?.you're neglecting it more in a way.?you don't do that deep thinking about what you're actually teaching. So I think it was quite a good time to go back and do that deep in-depth thinking .
I really enjoyed having the meeting with you two [researchers at the University], it gave me so many ideas. [?] What did I enjoy???not having the attention on me, but having the attention on my lesson and my planning was just really nice .
And that was really nice to just be able to bounce ideas off somebody else . Because I think you are quite isolated when you are a teacher, you are in the classroom on your own and you do do your own things in a way, not that in-depth because people don't have time in school. And I really enjoyed that aspect of it. And just that you were coming up with lots of new things that I hadn't thought of . And as well I really felt that you gave me a lot of confidence in trying out different things and you were just like ?Yeah go ahead and just do it'."
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