Dutch Center of Expertise for Teacher Training in Mathemathics and Science Education (STEM teacher training)
Dutch name: Expertisecentrum Lerarenopleidingen Wiskunde en Rekenen en Science

Activities of the Center

• Annual Conference
  All ‘learning communities’ in the area of STEM teacher training meet at the Annual May Conference for exchange and update of both didactical and content knowledge.
• Networking
  Exchange of ideas between the different teacher training institutes, both for primary and secondary education
• Knowledge sharing
  Building and maintaining the website for use by teachers and students of dutch teacher training institutes
• Research
  Support teacher trainers to do (didactical) research themselves and build stronger connections with researchers

References

• Kools, Q., & Keijzer, R. (2019). Mathematics teacher educators’ professional development as by-product of practice based research: the elwier research group. Paper presented at the EApril 2018, Portorož, Slovenia.