Recognising Excellence: HAToM Candidates from the Catholic Education Office of Melbourne
The Catholic Education Office of Melbourne is supporting around 50 of its teachers to be assessed against the AAMT Standards for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics in Australian Schools over the next five years. The CEOM will support the teachers by paying the costs of their assessment, and with time release for networking and preparing for their assessment. If they are successful, the teachers will become AAMT accredited Highly Accomplished Teachers of Mathematics, or HAToMs. The first group of 10 or so candidates - primary and secondary teachers from Catholic schools in and around Melbourne - will begin the process in August 2008 and are likely to complete the final phase of their assessment a year later.
The project is a recognition of the work the AAMT has done to develop and implement its Standards over recent years, and we welcome the opportunity to work with the CEOM to recognise the work of some of their best practitioners. There are details about the HAToM credential and assessment process in the "Standards" section of this website. For information about the project with the CEOM, please contact Will Morony, AAMT Executive Officer.