6. December 2023 | Erfurt School of Education, Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät, SPF Bildung. Schule. Verhalten., Forschung

"FUM" is intended to support maths teachers who teach other subjects

Over the next two years, the Thuringian Ministry for Economis Affairs, Science and Digital Society – co-financed by the EU – will provide almost 377,000 euros in funding for a new research project by apl. Professor Heike Hahn and Dr Nadine Böhme at the Faculty of Education at the University of Erfurt as part of its RTI programme (Research – Technology – Innovation). The researchers want to find ways to support non-specialist Mathematics teachers in the long term in a skills-oriented manner. The project starts on 1 January 2024.

Under the title "FUM – Long-term Competence-oriented Support for Non-specialist Mathematics Teachers", concrete support materials for lesson design and diagnostics of pupils' learning status in the subject of Mathematics in the double grades 5/6 and 7/8 for secondary schools for non-specialist teachers are to be developed on the basis of extensive needs, target group and task analyses. The project is aimed at teachers who have acquired a teaching qualification for two subjects (first and second state examinations) without Mathematics as a subject, but who teach Mathematics at their schools in these grades.