Continuing Professional Development

Future Conferences

Bowland Maths Regional Conferences

The Mathematical Association and Association of Teachers of Mathematics have jointly designed a one-day event for secondary Mathematics advisors, Consultants and Advanced Skills Teachers to provide a hands-on introduction to both the Bowland lesson resources and the accompanying professional development materials for key stage 3 mathematics teachers.

These will be held in each of the nine regions - to find out about an event near you and register your place click here.

The Mathematical Association Secondary Education Mathematics Conference
Saturday 20th September 2008, Stirling University

The annual MA one-day event for Scottish secondary mathematics teachers will be held this year on Saturday 20th September 2008. The event regularly attracts over 220 delegates and is always oversubscribed, so you are recommended to register and pay early.

The Paul Andrews of University of Cambridge will give the key-note address and the event offers a diverse range of talks, workshops and discussion groups covering the whole of the secondary education phase. The detailed conference programme and the registration form can be downloaded here.

Conference programme (pdf)
Conference Registration form (pdf)

SmartBoard interactive whiteboard training  

A one-day professional development course has also been developed by MA colleagues for developing pedagogy using the SmartBoard and full details can be found on the Steljes website.

It is also possible to book one-day events in school to enable the whole mathematics department to benefit from the training.

Recent Conferences

The MA Secondary Mathematics Conference
Friday 22nd February 2008, York

This regional event, held with support from the NCETM and STEMNET in Yorkshire and Humberside attracted over 90 delegates who took part in a wide range of talks, presentations and workshops. Delegate feedback from the day, both informal and via the evaluation forms, was hugely positive, with responses such as the best part of the day was… "…bouncing ideas off inspired/inspiring individuals" and "…the opportunity to meet with and share ideas about teaching practices".

The opening plenary talk was given by Rob Eastaway and Tom Roper gave the closing plenary talk. Our thanks go to Mary Ledwick and Tony Shepherd for organising the event and to each of the 15 presenters/workshop leaders for making the event such a success. We are already exploring the possibility of holding a similar event in 2009.

Teaching Mathematics with ICT

The Mathematical Association works jointly with the Association of Teachers of Mathematics to provide professional development resources to support teachers' uses of ICT. These can be found on the Teaching mathematics with ICT web page.

Diary Dates

BETT The Educational Technology Show, Olympia London 14th - 17th Jan 2009.
www.bettshow.com/page.cfm

Education Show NEC, Birmingham 26th - 28th March 2009
www.education-show.co.uk

The MA will have a presence at both events in the Subject Association Information Centre and will provide a subject association workshop at the BETT exhibition.

Tailor-made Conferences for schools/clusters of schools!

The MA can organise a range of one-day conferences and workshops to local school clusters on a variety of themes.

Please contact  cpd@m-a.org.uk  if you are interested in the MA helping with your training needs.

Please contact the Association's offices for more information about what the Association has to offer.