Professional Development
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Have Sum Fun Online2009 Professional Development Series
The Series
A set of four workshops to be conducted for those teachers of lower secondary Mathematics who do not have Mathematics training or qualifi cations, to expand their professional knowledge and capabilities.
Each workshop will be held in both a North of the River venue and a South of the River venue. So choose your most convenient venue.
The workshops will loosely follow the structure of a teaching and learning lesson or set of lessons. Drawing on the presenter's experience in many locations and over many years, of what worked for him and what he sees works for others.
The focus is not on teaching mathematics content, but on how to present content tobest engage students as learners and how to enthuse learning of Mathematics.
Topics
Workshop 1: Getting started to engage in learning
Wednesday March 18 - North Venue: Padbury SHS
Wednesday March 25 - South Venue: John Curtin COA
Workshop 2: Adopting an Investigative approach
Wednesday May 13 - North Venue: Padbury SHS
Wednesday May 20 - South Venue: John Curtin COA
Workshop 3: The importance and role of problem solving
Wednesday June 10 - North Venue: Padbury SHS
Wednesday June 17 - South Venue: John Curtin COA
Workshop 4: Assessing for learning and learning for assessment
Wednesday August 19 - North Venue: Padbury SHS
Wednesday August 26 - South Venue: John Curtin COA
Presenter
Chris Fraser is Deputy Principal at Padbury SHS, and has been a teacher of mathematics in government schools now for over 30 years. He is a committee member of MAWA and has been active as a presenter to Conferences and Secondary Convention over many years.
He will be drawing from his own successes in the classroom, acknowledging his own failures, because not everything works all the time or for everyone. He was a member of the Consultative Group that developed the Mathematics Progress Maps throughout the 1990s and was one of the authors of the Working Mathematically in… series of publications for MAWA.
Registration Fees
Registration fees include 10% GST.
Individual Workshops
(attendance only)
$40 non MAWA member
$30 MAWA Individual member
Package of 4 Workshops
(includes attendance and CD)
$150 non MAWA member
$120 MAWA Individual member
Flyer & Registration Form (95kb)
Abstracts (25kb)
