There is a tendency for people to think that theories about teaching and learning in mathematics are only devised and written about by academics in order to produce articles in research journals. However, most of us have issues we are interested in or things we are experimenting with in our classroom. All of us have theories and principles and these come across in the actions we take in our classrooms and in the way we work with our learners. Sometimes we are not even aware of these until an observer points out to us what we say and what we do. This is “theory in action”.

This unique and innovative professional development resource comprises a series of video reflections from teachers together with some clips of their practice.
Their purpose is to stimulate discussion and experimentation, not to provide answers about what is right or wrong.

The video clips and associated printed resources are designed to be used in many different scenarios (individually, in pairs or small groups or as a whole department, faculty or primary school staff).

There has been no attempt to designate the clips as only relevant to a particular phase or type of school, college or other institution. The power of these resources is that they provide a very accessible way of hearing practising teachers articulate some of the big ideas and over-arching themes in mathematics education in their own classroom-centred way.

Each resource comprises a video clip, files of printed materials (which might be used to support some activity or talking point) and a set of prompts for discussion.

See Related Mathemapedia Entries
A Mathemapedia entry has now been written relating to each of these teachers’ video resources. Follow one of the links here or in the relevant teachers’ section on the right hand side of the page to provide further discussion points as well as links to other related Mathemapedia entries.