Fay Turner

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E-mail Address

fat21@cam.ac.uk

Phone

01223 767573

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Profile

Fay was a primary school teacher for 20 years before coming into teacher education. She worked in a number of Cambridgeshire primary schools and held the post of mathematics coordinator in three of these as well as working for Cambridgeshire LA as an advisory teacher in mathematics. Fay has been involved in teacher education since 1999, firstly at Homerton College then at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Fay has held a number of managerial roles within the Faculty of Education.  She co-managed the Early Years and Primary PGCE for four years before moving to manage the primary and secondary Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP).  Presently, Fay has responsibility for managing the Continuing/Practitioner Professional Development work of the Faculty.  Fay teaches curriculum mathematics and general professional issues on the primary PGCE and is a member of the core teaching team for the HertsCam MEd.

Fay's main interest is in the professional development of teachers, particularly in relation to teacher knowledge.  Her PhD involved a developmental research project in which teachers used the Knowledge Quartet framework as a tool for developing mathematical content knowledge.  Fay is also interested in promoting the professional development of teachers through supporting communities of enquiry within schools and groups of schools.

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Current Research Projects

Mathematical Knowledge in Teaching: a seminar series funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Home page http://www.maths-ed.org.uk/mkit/

A four-year longitudinal doctoral study into developing the mathematics content knowledge of beginning teachers completed in October 2009

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Course Involvement

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Publications

Turner, F. (2009) 'Developing Mathematical Content Knowledge: The ability to respond to the unexpected'. In Tzekaki, Kaldrimidou and Sakonidis Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education , Thessaloniki, Greece. July 19-24, 2009

Turner, F. (2009) 'Developing the ability to respond to the unexpected'. Informal Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics . Paper presented in Cambridge, March 2009

Turner, F. (2009) 'Kate's conceptions of mathematics teaching: influences in the first three years'. Proceedings of CERME 5: Fifth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. February 2009, Lyon, France.

Turner, F. (2009) Growth in teacher knowledge: Individual reflection and community participation. Research in Mathematics Education , Volume 11 (1), 81 Routledge

Rowland, T., Turner, F., Thwaites, A. and Huckstep, P. (2009). Developing primary mathematics teaching. London: Sage

Turner, F. (2008). Growth in teacher knowledge: Individual reflection and community participation. In O. Figueras, J. Cortina, S. Alatorre, T. Rojano and A, Sepulveda (Eds.) Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education , Morelia, Mexico. July 17-21, 2008

Turner, F. (2008) 'Beginning elementary teachers' use of representation'. Research in Mathematics Education, Volume 10 (2), Routledge

Turner, F. (2007 ), 'The mathematics content knowledge of beginning teachers: The case of Amy' CERME 4: Fourth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. February 2007, Larnaca, Cyprus.

Turner, F. (2007) Development in the mathematics teaching of beginning elementary school teachers: An approach based on focused reflections. Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, Mathematics in Ireland 2, (pp. 377-386) , Dublin: St Patrick's College

Turner, F. (2007). 'Beginning Teachers' use of representation as viewed through the lens of the knowledge quartet'. Paper presented at BERA September 2007, Institute of Education, London Published on Education-line, http: www.leeds.ac.ukeducol

Rowland, T. and Turner, F. (2007) 'Developing and using the 'Knowledge Quartet': A Framework for the Observation of mathematics Teaching'. The Mathematics Educator, Volume 10, No. 1. pp. 107 - 124

Turner, F. (2006) 'Teaching children to count: Does knowledge of theory matter?' In J. Novotna, N. Moraova, M. Kratka and N. Stehlikova Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education , Volume 1, (p. 346.) Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University.

Rowland, T. and Turner, F. (2006) 'A framework for the observation and review of mathematics teaching'. Mathematics Education Review 18, pp. 3 - 17.

Turner, F. (2005) "I wouldn't do it that way": trainee teachers' reaction to observations of their own teaching. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics 25 (3) pp. 87 - 93.