Hi Zsolt, Definitely interested in this! Please keep us 'in the loop'. We have a lot of Further Maths students at Havering Sixth Form College, to say nothing of record numbers of AS Maths students this year. Kathryn ________________________________________ From: ncetm-geogebra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ncetm-geogebra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Zsolt Lavicza [zl221@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 29 September 2009 11:18 To: ncetm-geogebra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; h.gretton@xxxxxxxxx; Neil V Challis; Hilary Povey; J.A.Waldock@xxxxxxxxx; mark@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Sharon Tripconey; Sue de Pomerai Subject: [ncetm-geogebra] GeoGebra CPD with Further Mathematics Support Programme Dear Friends, I have just had a meeting with Sharon Tripconey from the Further Mathematics Support Programme, which is supported by the Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) and funded by DCFS. The FMSP is interested in offering GeoGebra professional development for teachers in England. They already has a capacity to deliver CPD both physical and on-line, but according to Sharon they miss the expertise in GeoGebra. It would be a possibility to develop teaching materials and CPD courses for KS-5 and Further Maths (and it could be extended to KS-4 and AS Maths through MEI). If you were interested in participating in this development that would be great and afterwards in the delivery/support of these course both on-line and face-to-face. According to Sharon FMSP could support the development of these materials and delivering of these courses would be paid for presenters (the courses are self funded by teachers and presenters are paid from this money). Also, we could develop research projects around this development and apply funding (probably from government agencies, ESRC, NCETM or other funding bodies, FMSP could advise us for possibilities for funding applications) for doing research both on the development and delivery of these CPD courses. If you have interest being involved in this, have recommendations or ideas please let us know and we can go further in this area. It would be definitely a good step forward getting GeoGebra known and used in England. All best wishes, Zsolt ps: if you know anyone who might want to be involved in this please also let us know -------------------------------------------- Zsolt Lavicza -------------------------------------------- University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, Queens' College -------------------------------------------- Phone (UK): +44 7962 488 222 (Hungary): +36 20 587 7847 -------------------------------------------- E-mail: zl221@xxxxxxxxx zsolt@xxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------- http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/lavicza/ CAS project website: http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~zl221/CAS.htm GeoGebra: http://geogebra.org IGI: http://geogebra.org/IGI -------------------------------------------- This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. Its contents may be confidential and/or subject to legal privilege and should be treated as such. It should not be copied, disclosed, retained or used by any other party. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Havering Sixth Form College. Although we have checked this email for viruses, it is your responsibility to scan the message and attachments prior to opening them. We do not take responsibility for loss or damages caused by viruses. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.