CAME in the IP: spotting Piagetian levels

The IP Mathematics programme includes 24 Shayer lessons to promote cognitive acceleration. Each grade has been allocated 8 lessons for the year which amounts to 1 per unit. Since all 3 grades need to teach the first CAME lesson of the year, we decided that our focus on student learning, for the 3-week period, would be through these lessons. Each set of grade teachers has spent time discussing the objective of the lesson, the cognitive preparation, the episodes and have prepared the lesson material . We plan to video each lesson and edit the recording so that we have clips that can be used to observe and reflect on learning that took place. We aim to focus on spotting the Piagetian levels as set out in the manual and note how students may/may not switch to a higher level as the lesson proceeds.  The Grade 4 and 5 lessons each have 2 episodes and the Grade 6 lesson has 3 episodes. Grade 5 and 6 will develop the episodes over more than one period.