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Professional Development for Higher Education

This page is dedicated to the CPD video resources for teachers in Higher Education. 

Some are presented by colleagues from within Loughborough University's Department of Mathematics Education, and others by external experts within mathematics education. 

If you are interested in resources for early years, primary and secondary, please return to the main CPD page.

Dyscalculia: What next?

In this video Dr Kinga Morsanyi presents information about the typical symptoms of dyscalculia, and how our views about dyscalculia and diagnostic approaches have changed in recent years.

Statistical Diagrams from Playfair to Nightingale

The earliest statistical diagrams were drawn towards the end of the eighteenth century by William Playfair and they feature in our everyday life and in our curricula to this day. Dr Chris Pritchard looks at the developments of statistical diagrams throughout history and the role they play now.

Can we get students to "explain their reasoning"?

In this video Michael Pershan argues that explanations are quite important in mathematical learning, even though students often have a very difficult time explaining why procedures work.

Cognitive Load Theory: Practical Applications

This video presents practical applications of Cognitive Load Theory for the classroom. Building on Ouhou Chen's video, Ollie Lovell, provides classroom examples of the redundancy effect, split-attention effect, worked examples and more.

Comparative judgement in the mathematics classroom

Comparative judgement offers a novel approach to assessing important but fuzzy learning outcomes, such as problem solving and conceptual understanding. In this video, Dr Ian Jones introduces comparative judgement and how it can be used in the mathematics classroom.

Maths without mistakes

In this workshop by Dr Dan Meyer, he discusses curriculum, technology, and strategies that celebrate and develop that thinking instead, helping learners grow in their maths identity and knowledge.

Effective teacher professional development

Research is increasingly providing insights about how pupils learn. However, our understanding of how to design professional development in order to help teachers put these insights into practice remains limited. In this talk, Dr Sam Sims outlines a new theory of effective professional development.

Self Explanation Training and the Transition to Undergraduate Mathematics

This video by Lara Alcock looks at how studying Mathematics at Undergraduate level is often much different to the expectations of students where they are unaccustomed to studying the many theorems and proofs that appear in their lecture notes. This video explores how they can study more effectively.

Cognitive Load Theory Informed Teaching

Ouhau Chen aims to initiate some discussion with teachers as well as inform teachers how cognitive load theory can inform teaching in his presentation on Cognitive Load Theory Informed Teaching.