Every year the Southampton Science & Engineering Day organisers give out awards and this year the Teacher Zone won ‘Best Collaboration’! Massive congratulations to everyone involved, not in the least to our School-University Partnership Officer Jessica Spurrell!
OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN maths: A curriculum approach with timss 2011 data Christian Bokhove University of Southampton Previous studies have shown that socioeconomic status (SES) and ‘opportunity to learn’ (OTL), which can be typified as ‘curriculum content covered’, are significant predictors of students’ mathematics achievement. Seeing OTL as curriculum variable, this paper explores multilevel models (students…
Dr Ben Davies has secured funding for developing an interactive version of the School Mathematics Textbook materials. Interactive SMP focuses on developing online interactive workbooks for secondary school mathematics. These workbooks will be adaptations of the existing SMP archive and are a collaboration between the Southampton Education School, Department of Mathematics, and 10+ secondary school…
University of Southampton student Simon Alles (PGCE 2012-13) set a Guinness World record recently for the largest mathematical jigsaw. Simon and 500 students at the British School of Beijing recently completed a 3348 piece the Tarzia jigsaw, designed by Simon, as part of a Charity Marathon event.
Dr. Jenny Byrne was recently interviewed by BBC Radio Solent about the importance of training teachers in health education so that they gain confidence and competence to effectively promote pupil health and well-being in schools. More information in the press release. You can listen to the item below.
Jenny Byrne ( MaSE) and Chris Downey (LSIE) have been successful in publishing a suite of four papers in The Curriculum Journal 2013, volume 24. The papers are based on the findings of their research project that explored the implementation of a competence-based curriculum in four secondary schools. The papers considered the barriers and affordances…
Expanding the previously successful Numbers in Everyday Life project, we explore the embeddedness and transferability of the ‘Written Numbers in Everyday Life’ resources within family populations of diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in two different national contexts: England and Jamaica. Research collaborators: Dr Charis Voutsina (PI), University of Southampton, UK Dr Lois George (Co-I), The University of The West Indies,…