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Primary Teachers’ Adaptive Expertise in Interdisciplinary Mathematics & Science

Timothy Symons, Wanty Widjaja, Lihua Xu, Joe Ferguson, Amanda Berry, Jan Van Driel, Colleen Vale, Gahyoung Kim, Lam Pham.

10^th South East Asia Design Research Conference [15/07 - 16/07]

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Key Research Questions:

1. How can primary teachers’ adaptive expertise in interdisciplinary mathematics and science be characterised in terms of components and levels?

2. To what extent, and how, does primary teachers’ adaptive expertise change and develop during a trajectory across three school years aimed at interdisciplinary mathematics and science in a co-plan, co-teach and co-reflect approach?

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St Oliver Plunkett Primary School

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Catholic Primary School of 350 students.
Introduced STEM specialist classes for the first time in 2021.
Focus on integrating STEM and Inquiry classes within units of work.
Students participated in STEM MAD in 2022.
Looking to develop the teaching of STEM amongst staff.
Challenged to integrate multiple subjects within a unit.

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Journey Through Space

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Photo by NASA on Unsplash

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Finger on the Pulse

Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

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Teacher Talk Time

360-video Classroom Footage: SS1 W1 C1

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Student engagement - provocation

360-video Classroom Footage: SS1 W2 C2

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Opportunity for student discovery

360-video Classroom Footage: SS1 W2 C1

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Student question - class discovery

360-video Classroom Footage: SS2 W2 C1

Part 1

Part 2

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360 discoveries

360-video Classroom Footage: FS2 W2 C1

Independent application

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360 discoveries

360-video Classroom Footage: SS1 W2 C2

Group collaboration ‘ah-ha’ moment