Researchers lead national project to identify effective Initial Teacher Education
Ros Hyde and Julie-Ann Edwards, members of the Mathematics and Science Education Research Centre, are leading a national project funded by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics.
The project aims to identify what constitutes effective Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in mathematics across primary, secondary and further education sectors. Central to this project are four national consultation conferences in London, Birmingham, Bristol and York involving the mathematics ITE community, organised and led by Ros Hyde. Outcomes from these national consultations, telephone interviews of members of the Association of Mathematics Education Tutors(AMET), and an on-line survey involving school and college based ITE mentors and ITE students from across the country, will be published in a report in February, 2011. This project is timely, given the Government's publication of the White Paper on Education on the day of the first national consultation for this project in London on 24th November, 2010. Pictured are members of the mathematics education team attending this consultation in London.