Indigenous Education and Training Futures > Indigenous Education > Education service >

QUT YuMi Deadly Maths PD Program

The Department of Education and Training has signed an agreement with the QUT YuMi Deadly Centre to provide mathematics professional development (PD) for schools in Central and South Queensland.

The aim of this program is to enhance the mathematics teaching capacity of schools in accordance with Closing the Gap strategies and with a focus on improving numeracy outcomes for NAPLAN assessments.

The YuMi Deadly PD Program will be a train-the-trainer activity designed to prepare principals. teachers and teacher aides from schools to be able to train other teachers and teacher aides in mathematics teaching strategies.

The program will provide the following:

paper and on-line mathematics resources for Years Pre-Prep to 9, comprising teaching and learning activities for each mathematics strand, and information on effective philosophy and pedagogy and cultural activities;
PD workshops for principals, teachers and teacher aides, comprising mathematics activities and training manuals;
specialist resources comprising diagnostic tests, other YuMi Deadly mathematics activities, information on improving NAPLAN results, and University certification; and
Phone, virtual and on-line support for trainers when they are back in the school.

website.

^ Top of page

This page was last reviewed on 21 Oct 2011