Susan Morton, who teaches at Donibristle Primary School in Dunfermline, won a practitioner award last year from SCRE, the Scottish Centre for Research in Education based at Glasgow University, for her practice-based project, 'Promoting number and mathematical development in nursery through staff development'.
The project's aim was to raise awareness among staff about how children learn number and mathematical concepts, improve the nursery's delivery of this aspect of the curriculum and encourage children's abilities and understanding.
Ms Morton said, 'I think it has raised our professional awareness and helped the team spirit. The staff were wanting to find out about how children learn and I wrote up how we went about tackling awareness of numeracy and maths.' Work took place during part of the academic years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 and involved up to 160 nursery children. Discussion about how to improve children's learning in numeracy and maths was addressed during weekly staff meetings, and progress was reviewed regularly.
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