Scholars Blogs

Blogs from current Scholars and Alumni on education and becoming a maths teacher.

$What do pupils take home from mathematics lessons? Homework? Worksheets? Textbooks? Nothing? This is the question that stuck with me the most following Peters presentation, it made me question how exciting and applicable my own lessons are from the perspective of my pupils.$
16 March 2018
Scholarship CPD Day – National STEM Learning Centre
What do pupils take home from mathematics lessons? Homework? Worksheets? Textbooks? Nothing? This is the question that stuck with me the most following Peters presentation, it made me question how exciting and applicable my own lessons are from the perspective of my pupils.
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$At my alternative placement for my ITT year, I was given the project of helping to organise a school wide event to take place on World Number Day.$
12 March 2018
World Number Day
At my alternative placement for my ITT year, I was given the project of helping to organise a school wide event to take place on World Number Day.
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$Since I began teaching training, I have learnt a lot about behaviour management. I am also aware that I have a lot to learn and am still wrestling internally with certain aspects.$
08 March 2018
How do you manage behaviour in the classroom?
Since I began teaching training, I have learnt a lot about behaviour management. I am also aware that I have a lot to learn and am still wrestling internally with certain aspects.
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$You might be surprised to learn that nearly half of all applicants to the Mathematics Teacher Training Scholarships were career changers in 2017!$
04 March 2018
Change Your Career: Become A Mathematics Teacher
You might be surprised to learn that nearly half of all applicants to the Mathematics Teacher Training Scholarships were career changers in 2017!
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$I think that the main reason why I applied to become a scholar was that there was so much to gain, but nothing to lose.$
28 February 2018
Why I Applied for a Scholarship
I think that the main reason why I applied to become a scholar was that there was so much to gain, but nothing to lose.
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$Find out about the Maths Teacher Training Scholars event at Aston University - 'The Geometry of the Dambusters' led by Peter Ransom of the Mathematical Society.$
25 February 2018
The Geometry of the Dambusters
Find out about the Maths Teacher Training Scholars event at Aston University - 'The Geometry of the Dambusters' led by Peter Ransom of the Mathematical Society.
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