24TRA343 Using Free Online Question Sets to Aid with Student Engagement and Differentiation

DATE:      MONDAY, 21ST OCTOBER 2024
TIME:       7.00PM - 8.00PM
VENUE:   ONLINE VIA ZOOM

TARGET AUDIENCE: POST PRIMARY & PRIMARY MATHS TEACHERS

Katie will introduce teachers to the free widely available website www.thatquiz.org and demonstrate use of this tool for students. This has uses across a huge range of topics and is applicable for primary/L2LP all the way up to Leaving certificate.

This can be incorporated into the low tech or high-tech classroom with ease. She uses it in the classroom and also as a homework device. It allows for students to access material at a level they are comfortable with and build on that to ensure all learners are challenged.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand how to use the website to differentiate material appropriately for students of varied ability.
• Have awareness of differentiation tools available without adding to the teacher's own workload and how to incorporate it into lessons in the high-tech class and also the low-tech classroom.
• Equip teachers with tools to challenge learners of all levels without changing activity and with learners not being aware of the differences between them.

Bio of Presenter: Katie Whyte Killian 

Katie Whyte Killian is a secondary school Maths teacher in St Joseph's Rochfortbridge who completed the BA Mathematics and Education degree through NUIGalway. Qualifying with a first-class honour and a passion for collaboration in education Katie set up and administrates the Facebook group 'Maths Teachers of Ireland' which has over four thousand members. Katie is passionate about sharing resources and especially ones that are valuable and freely available to all learners, especially after having previously taught in DEIS schools for seven years. She also has a passion of bringing digital technologies safely into the classroom, which inspired her action research project which focused on the use of online question sets in the mathematics classroom.