Primary teachers + intensive maths training = world class maths pupils
03 March 2010 by Editor
One thousand five hundred more primary teachers will receive
training to become mathematics specialists thanks to an £11.8m
investment, Schools Minister Diana Johnson announced today.
Speaking at the annual conference of the Advisory Committee for
Mathematics Education (ACME), the Schools Minister explained that
the new primary maths champions would join the ranks of over 1,600
primary teachers who have already begun their two year Masters
level course to become expert maths teachers. She said that
specialist teachers would transform the way the subject is taught
in primary schools and help our pupils become among the best at
maths in the world, while creating an even more skilled teaching
workforce.
Maths specialist teachers will also:
- Improve teachers' knowledge and skills in
teaching maths - making them more confident in the classroom
- Improve pupil confidence, enjoyment and
achievement in maths
- Help spread expertise in their own school, so
that every teacher can improve their maths skills - creating hubs
of maths excellence up and down the country
- Create a local network of maths specialist
teachers, who work together to improve maths teaching across the
local area.
This investment backs up the Government's commitment that by 2019,
every primary school should have access to a maths specialist
teacher, as recommended in the Williams Mathematics Review.
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