Irish Research Council’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme

Jillian White (PhD student under the supervision of Dr Patrick Johnson and Prof Merrilyn Goos) was awarded funding from the Irish Research Council’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme for her PhD project entitled “Reimagining Professional Development for Irish Mathematics Teachers”. The research study aims to design a professional development programme for Irish secondary school mathematics teachers that can impact teacher pedagogies and student learning. The objectives are to examine the classroom realities of a group of teachers and analyse how they are currently teaching a topic (for the purpose of this study the topic will be mathematical problem solving), and thus design a longitudinal, evidence-based, support-centred CPD programme and monitor its impact on both participating teachers and their students. The CPD programme is currently underway with four participating teachers from the greater Limerick area.