Mr Barton Maths Podcast

Sign up for your free trial at HoD Space at hodspace.com. Access the show notes here: ⁠https://podcast.mrbartonmaths.com/228-hod-space-ep1-praise-tick-sheets-year-7-sets-first-departmental-meeting/⁠In this episode of the podcast, Jo Morgan and Craig Barton discuss:1. Praise, and the problem of the "invisible pupils"Prompted by a question from HOD Space member Megan, Jo and Craig dig into Pritesh Raichura's seating plan tick sheet — where a teacher aims for 30 to 50 individual praises a lesson — and ask whether that's realistic in a maths lesson built around long stretches of independent practice, before turning to how a head of department supports a teacher who wants to try something like this, and what it would take to roll it out across a team.2. Setting Year 7Jo explains why her school groups new Year 7s using SATs results rather than a baseline test, how two early end-of-unit tests are used to sense-check those groupings, and why keeping the whole business of setting deliberately low-key