Massey University Mathematical Content Knowledge and Task Adaptation Course
Massey University

Massey University

Mathematical Content Knowledge and Task Adaptation Course

  • Auckland, New Zealand
  • Turitea, New Zealand

Course

English

On-Campus

Key Summary

About: Massey University offers a course to help teachers develop mathematical content knowledge and adapt tasks for classroom use. It has nine workshops, delivered online via Zoom, run as a 1 day (6 hours) session or 3 separate after school sessions (2 hours each). The course covers pedagogy, task design, curriculum adaptation, numeracy, assessment, and instructional strategies for primary and secondary teachers.

Career Outcomes: Participants apply skills in roles such as classroom teacher, math specialist, instructional coach, professional development facilitator, or educational consultant, using task adaptation, formative assessment, differentiation and lesson design to progress within schools, districts or learning networks.

This course is intended to support teachers to develop mathematical content knowledge and adapt mathematical tasks to implement in the classroom. The course consists of nine workshops.These courses can be run either as a 1 day (6 hours) course during the school holidays, or as 3 separate after school sessions (2 hours each). This will be run Zoom.