Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers – FutureLearn
Develop as a mentor of early career maths teachers through engagement with robust and up-to-date mathematics education research Develop as a mentor of early career maths teachers On this course youll be led by experts from the UCL Institute of Education as you learn how to support less experienced maths teachers This course offers a chance t engage in-course discussion with your peers to help you boost your own subject knowledge in teaching secondary school students and apply new research to your teaching practice As a mentor youll use your personal experience to reflect upon and develop further your practice as well as share your expertise with new teachers The course covers four pedagogically-powerful inter-connected themes Fostering Algebraic Reasoning Fostering Geometric Reasoning Fostering Numerical Reasoning Fostering Functional Reasoning These themes focus on promoting big ideas in learning and teaching mathematics such as generalisation and abstraction reasoning and proof precision in mathematical language conceptual structures within mathematics and appreciating the potential for mathematics teaching and learning of digital technologies Improve your subject knowledge for teaching mathematics appropriate to the range of secondary school students 11-18 years old Engage with relevant educational research and understand how it can be applied to you Apply educational research findings to your own practice as a mentor and that of your mentees Contribute to a community of mathematics mentors
