PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ACTIVITY: What impact can it have? 13 October 2016

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ACTIVITY: What contribution can it make to mathematics teachers’ professional development and student learning, and are any aspects of that distinctive?

Professional association activity is commonly regarded as a professional ‘good’ (Cherwin 2010), yet there remains little systematic evidence of its impact on teachers’ development or the learning of their students. At a time when there are a variety of threats to the quality and quantity of mathematically-effective teaching (Ofsted 2012) this small study asks what contribution participation in mathematics professional association activity can make to the development of teachers’ knowledge, skills and affect, and how that then impacts on their students.