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Tag Archives: Numeracy
Numeracy One to One intervention
An interesting read if you are using or thinking of using Pupil Equity Fund money to fund catch up numeracy strategies with teaching assistants or support for learning assistants.
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Scottish Education Awards 2018
The Scottish Education Awards recognise early learning and childcare settings and schools that have developed a vibrant and progressive culture and climate of continuous innovation in relation to numeracy.
The culture and ethos should promote respect, ambition and achievement in numeracy while improving outcomes for all learners in ways which eliminate inequity.
Nominations should provide detail about all the activities, programmes and creative approaches that the school or centre has undertaken.
- How are these being embedded across the four contexts for learning?
– Ethos and life of the school as a community
– Curriculum areas and subjects
– Interdisciplinary learning
– Opportunities for personal achievement
- How are you promoting equity, equality, diversity and inclusion in relation to this award category?
- What impact are your approaches having on learners, staff, their families, partner organisations, other educational establishments and the wider community?
Nominations close at 12 noon on Wednesday 14 February 2018
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Early Numeracy Approaches
For more information based on extensive evidence click here.
Early Years Resources
Here you will find a collection of early years maths / numeracy resources designed to help early years practitioners support children in their early stages of learning mathematics. In particular these resources are designed to help children’s emerging understanding and use of numbers and counting and lay strong foundations in mathematics.
Action Enquiry Research – Closing the Gap
Practitioners working on closing the poverty-related attainment gap may be interested in research conducted by Educational psychologists from across Scotland. The research features on the fields of numeracy and health and well-being.
For more information, click on the image below.
Numeracy and Mathematics Resource Guides
The National Numeracy and Mathematics Hub site publish monthly resource guides. These can be found in the Education Scotland Resources tile of the Hub. The latest guides for BGE and Senior Phase can be accessed using the following links.
Numeracy and Mathematics Benchmarks
Education Scotland have now published the final Benchmarks for Literacy and English, and Numeracy and Mathematics following a wide consultation with practitioners:
Numeracy and Mathematics Benchmarks
The Benchmarks embed a wide range of existing assessment guidance – significant aspects of learning, progression frameworks and annotated exemplification – into one key resource to support practitioners’ professional judgement.
Follow this link for FAQ regarding the Benchmarks:
You may find this document highlighting the changes that have been made to the Draft Benchmarks helpful:
Numeracy Mathematics Changes Document
Guidance from Education Scotland is that the core resources for practitioners are the Experiences and Outcomes for planning, and the Benchmarks to support assessment, tracking and professional judgement of when a level has been achieved:
“Assessment is an on-going process to support learning. The Benchmarks should be used to help monitor progress towards achievement of a level and to support overall professional judgement of when a learner has achieved a curriculum level. They support professional dialogue, moderation and monitoring of progress in learning.
Evidence of progress and achievement will come from:
•observing day-to-day learning within, and outwith, the classroom.
•coursework, including tests.
•learning conversations.
•planned periodic holistic assessments.
•information from standardised assessments.”
Every Day’s a Learning Day – Numeracy
This animation is to assist parents and carers to support their child’s learning and development at home, based on Education Scotland’s publication “Every day is a learning day”. It is part of one of the Early Years Collaborative initiatives in Falkirk Council.
It can be accessed from here.
More information on this can be found on the Education Scotland website.
