LIA: I think one reason why the origami activity worked so well in this class was that the teacher was well prepared.
SEB: Right. I think it would have taken me ages to prepare examples, showing each of the steps involved in making the bird. But that was a really good idea. The children could see what they were aiming for – and much better for them to be able to hold something, rather than just looking at pictures.
LIA: Mmm – those physical examples supported her verbal explanations really well.
SEB: It’s strange that origami isn’t used more widely. Why do you think that is?
LIA: Well, teachers may just feel it’s not that appealing to children who are used to doing everything on computers, especially boys. Even if they’re aware of the benefits.
SEB: Oh, I don’t know. It’s no different to any other craft activity. I bet it’s because so many teachers are clumsy like me.
LIA: That’s true – too much effort required if you’re not good with your hands.
SEB: Well, anyway, I think we should try it out in our maths teaching practice with Year 3. I can see using origami is a really engaging way of reinforcing children’s knowledge of geometric shapes, like they were doing in the video, but I think it would also work really well for presenting fractions, which is coming up soon.
LIA: Good idea – that’s something most of the kids in that class might struggle with. Origami would also be good practice for using symmetry- but I think they did that last term.
SEB: OK – well let’s try and get some ideas together and plan the lesson next week.
TUTOR: OK, if you could all stop …
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