North West Branch Student Teacher Lecture
Speaker: Dr Ems Lord FCCT
Abstract
In this session Dr Ems Lord, the Director of NRICH at the University of Cambridge, will share her favourite idea for making the most of NRICH’s vast array of teaching and learning resources. Too many students finish their GCSEs lacking confidence in their mathematical abilities and problem-solving skills but NRICH’s ‘low threshold, high ceiling’ approach can help to address these concerns by supporting your students to become much more confident and resilient problem-solvers. Having joined NRICH after almost two decades as a classroom teacher, subject leader and teacher trainer, Ems will be sharing ideas which she wishes she’d known about herself when she was a classroom based!
About the speaker
Dr Ems Lord FCCT is the Director of NRICH, a collaboration between the Faculties of Education and Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. She is a regular contributor to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Teaching Profession, a recent President of the Mathematics Association and a member of the Joint Mathematical Council. Ems has taught mathematics across the key stages, and has worked in a variety of settings including a hospital school. Her previous roles include supporting schools as a Leading Mathematics Teacher, local authority consultant and as a Chartered Mathematics Teacher. Ems successfully led one of the largest Mathematics Specialist Teacher programmes and has taught mathematics education on both BEd and PGCE teacher programmes. She is a research fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge and supervises students following the Masters programme for the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education.
Open to all and especially to mathematics teachers and teachers in training.
No charge is made to attend meetings. Non-IMA members are welcome.
For further information, please contact: Stephen Lynch s.lynch@mmu.ac.uk or Rachel Stenhouse r.stenhouse@mmu.ac.uk.
