Inquiry Based Science Education Training for Primary Teachers A series of training sessions is run by the Pri-Sci-Net Project in partnership with the Mathematics and Science Learning Centre, at the University of Southampton. The training is aimed at teachers and science coordinators and consists of three face-to-face sessions interspersed with two periods of classroom based science…
Members of MaSE were pleased to be able to support secondary schools in the Southampton Local Authority with a revision day for year 11 pupils after the venue they had booked went into liquidation and left them high and dry. The day was targeted at supporting pupils on the C/D borderline and was attended by all…
The mathematics special interest group is hosting a conference for the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics on Saturday 14th June, 2014. This conference is one of three one-day conferences per year with a programme of presentations on a wide variety of research in mathematics education. This event is equally suitable to mathematics teachers…
Gisela Cebrián Bernat, who has just completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr Marcus Grace and Professor Debra Humphris, has been awarded a University of Southampton Students’ Union ‘Sustainability Action Award’ (Runner-up in the ‘Outstanding Student Award’ category). Gisela’s doctoral research focused on the development of an organisational learning model to embed education for…
Keith Jones is co-authoring a series of articles for the NCETM Secondary Magazine. The latest article, the third in the series, is devoted to “Reasoning with decimals”. The article can be read online at: https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/8045 [to read the article, you need to be registered on the NCETM website; this is easy to do, just click…
Pupils from Southampton secondary schools will be able to discover how their diets and lifestyles lay the foundations for a healthier life … thanks to a grant awarded to Dr Kath Woods-Townsend and the LifeLab team from the University of Southampton’s Student Centeredness Fund. The award of £30,000 over three years will enable all Year 9 students (13-14…
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.
Together with Dr. Caro from Oxford University M@SE member Christian Bokhove will be presenting a day long course at AERA 2014. Analyzing International Large-Scale Assessment Data with R The course will train participants how to analyze data from international assessments (PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS) using R. Lectures will briefly introduce R and explain the challenges…
This week, I visited Bexhill VIth Form College for the second of four facilitated action research sessions. The Head of Department, Clare Holmes, had heard about our previous action research sessions with Bicester Community College at our Active Approaches in post-16 conference in March 2013. Clare successfully applied for National Scholarship funding to fund a…
Yahya Al Zahrani, a PhD student from Saudi Arabia specialising in mathematics education, recently received an Excellence Award in the form of a certificate from Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London. Yahya has a broad research interest with a particular focus on primary mathematics teacher education. Yahya’s award is in recognition of his…