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01/08/2019 | Campus-Meldung

Better teaching through better training

Education researcher Prof. Dr. Frank Lipowsky from the University of Kassel, as a member of an expert commission in Hamburg, has presented a report with recommendations for action for the further development of mathematics teaching. The expert commission's 72-page report contains recommendations on how mathematics teaching can be improved - and not just in Hamburg.

According to the experts, the quality of training courses plays an important role and must be made more effective in the classroom. At the moment, many training courses do not reach the classroom, do not have a lasting impact, are held as one-off "one-shot events" and do not address the right issues. Participation in training courses as a whole team has hardly been possible up to now, or has been underutilized. The researchers call for the design of training courses to be based on findings about effective (mathematics) teaching and on findings about effective training courses, and for more efforts to be made to qualify trainers for their demanding tasks.

One of Prof. Dr. Lipowsky's main areas of research relates to the effectiveness of in-service training for teachers.

The expertise is available here: https://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/11904704/a80cee49fc0febd76d810b6514f1c108/data/mathegutachten.pdf

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Frank Lipowsky
University of Kassel
Department of Empirical Research on Schools and Teaching
Tel.: +49 561 804-3613
E-mail: lipowsky[at]uni-kassel[dot]de