22TRA609 Incorporating Digital Tools for Supporting Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Maths in Junior Classes

Date:      Tuesdays, 25 October, 15 November & 22 November 2022
Time:      4pm - 5pm
Venue:   Online Via Zoom

A professional learning community involves teachers working together in a collaborative, interactive and ongoing way in order to improve teacher practice and outcomes for students. This professional learning community will involve 3 online meetings. Sarah will share her experience of using digital tools to support the learning of mathematics in junior classes and will encourage teachers to try out ideas in their own classrooms and discuss their successes and challenges in follow-up meetings.

Meeting 1
●Virtual Manipulatives in Maths lesson from Junior Infants to Second Class
●Use of QR codes to aid children’s access to technology
●Small task to try in your classroom

Meeting 2
●Sharing experiences of how task went
●Setting up a Virtual Classroom
●Small task to try in your classroom

Meeting 3
●Sharing experiences of how task went
●Digital tools

Bio of Presenter: Sarah Byrne

Sarah Byrne is a primary school teacher in St Vincent de Paul Infant School in Dublin. Sarah has a keen interest in the use of digital technology to support all areas of education, in particular, the area of maths education in junior classes. Sarah completed a Masters in Education specialising in Inquiry-Based Learning  focusing on how the use of digital tools supported the link between inquiry-based learning and maths education in the primary classroom.