Junior Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Perspectives on the Transition of Year 7 into Secondary Schooling in Queensland
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Larkin, Kevin
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This paper explores the experiences of Junior Secondary teachers in two Queensland schools following the 2015 transition of Year 7 students from primary school to secondary school. There is a well-documented shortage of suitably qualified mathematics teachers in secondary schools in Queensland. A significant concern is that this potential shortage will be worsened with the new cohort of Year 7 students entering secondary schooling, as the demand for qualified mathematics teachers will increase. We use a Teacher Identify Framework to identify whether Junior Secondary mathematics teachers felt their self-reported level of mathematical knowledge was sufficient for this task.
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Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
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© 2017MERGA. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the author(s).
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Education systems
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Strang, R; Larkin, K, Junior Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Perspectives on the Transition of Year 7 into Secondary Schooling in Queensland, Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), 2017