T³_Europe? (T cubed Europe)

T³_Europe is a new European professional project to provide a programme of inservice courses for teachers of mathematics and science. The courses are designed to:

• increase teacher confidence in using hand-held technology,
• raise teacher awareness of its potential,
• identify examples of good practice in use,
• provide a framework to raise standards of teaching,
• enable teachers to enhance student understanding.

The title of the project, ‘Teachers Teaching with Technology’, reflects the nature of the programme and is designed to help teachers manage innovation.

The first courses will take place in the UK in 1997 and are being designed by a course team with national and international expertise

• in the use of technology, such as graphics calculators and computer algebra,
• in curriculum design,
• in teaching, and
• in training and support..

The Teachers Teaching with Technology initiative began in 1987 in the USA when two leading American teacher trainers started courses on ‘Precalculus’ in schools local to Ohio State University in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then it has grown into a series of national summer schools for teachers run as ‘T³ Institutes’. Since 1988 the number of teachers passing through a T³_Europe Institute is in the hundreds of thousands. T3Europe brings the spirit of the USA model to Europe. The European project will

• establish a pool of T³_Europe Institutes,
• develop, organise and run a system of mathematics and science teacher training courses on the use of hand held technology in teaching and learning.

LOCAL COURSE: University of Ulster at Jordanstown: 1997.

Teachers on the course will be loaned the appropriate technology for the duration of the course and will have the opportunity to purchase it at a considerable discount.

Course Fee: £80 including meals, refreshments and course materials. (Application has been made to the RTU for funding to partially support this course.

Enhancing Mathematics with Graphic Calculators

LC6 23rd June, 24th June, 25th June Jordanstown, Northern Ireland

"We know it can draw graphs, but what else?" This course will examine ways in which graphic calculators can enhance our current practice, particularly for 11-16 mathematics. The course will cater for absolute beginners, as well as those with some experience of graphic calculators. It covers familiarity with the major capabilities of a graphics calculator; practical examples of the use of graphic calculators in teaching a variety of topics; strategies for developing new teaching approaches; issues associated with such technology e.g. assessment; practical issues of the management of resources and introductions to associated technology such as the CBL data-logger.

Contact Professor Ken Houston (sk.houston@ulst.ac.uk ) at UUJ for further details.

Further information will also be available via the Centre for Teaching Mathematics at Plymouth University.

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