The Wits Maths Connect Secondary Project (WMCS) 2010 – 2019: A professional development intervention and its impact
数学教育
报告题目(Title)：The Wits Maths Connect Secondary Project (WMCS) 2010 – 2019: A professional development intervention and its impact
报告人(Speaker)：Jill Adler (国际数学教育委员会ICMI主席)
地点(Place)：京师学堂 京师厅
时间(Time)：3月26日 上午10:00-11:30
邀请人(Inviter)：曹一鸣
报告摘要
In this presentation I will describe key aspects of the WMCS – a research linked mathematics professional development project working with mathematics teachers in secondary schools in historically disadvantaged communities in South Africa. The first five years of the project (2010-2014) focused on ten schools and their mathematics teachers in one district in the Gauteng Province. We piloted and then consolidated a year-long Mathematics for Teaching course (called TM1) geared specifically for junior secondary teachers (Grades 8 & 9), together with a model of what I will call South African Lesson Study, and a Mathematics Teaching Framework that steers our research and development work. A key aspect of the framework is the notion of variation, particularly with respect to example sets in and across lessons. In the second phase of the project (2015 – 2019), focus has been on the TM1 course for larger numbers of teachers drawn from six districts and a large number of schools, and quantitative and qualitative studies of the impact of the project at the level of teachers and their learners. The PD model, teaching framework, and research results are grounded and innovative offering insight into Mathematics for Teaching particularly for mathematically under-prepared teachers, and for studying the impact of a course for teachers on their learners’ learning.
主讲人简介
Jill Adler holds the SARChI Mathematics Education Chair at the University of the Witwatersrand, which focuses on research and development in secondary mathematics education, and is the 2017-2020 President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). Jill has spearheaded several large-scale teacher development projects, the most recent, within the Chair ambit, begun in 2009, is called the Wits Maths Connect Secondary project. This work builds on her research on teaching in multilingual classrooms, and teacher professional development. Jill is a Visiting Professor of Mathematics Education at King’s College London, UK. She is the recipient of numerous awards, the most significant of which are the 2012 Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Gold Medal for Science in the Service of Society, and the 2015 Freudenthal Award.
