A Meccano® model of approaches to teaching mathematics

As teachers of teachers, we are keen to impress on our students (ITT and CPD) that teachers who are effective at teaching adopt a range of pedagogies that put the learner at the centre, combined with confident and flexible teaching (Williams, 2008). Therefore, as teachers of teachers, we need to adopt the same principles for our students. A device that has proved useful to examine mathematics teaching and apply to theorising research is to use an analogous model: the model construction system, Meccano®.