Recruitment Form for Basic Schools: The Written Numbers in Everyday Life Project

Thank you for your interest in participating in The Written Numbers in Everyday Life Project. 

The project is a collaboration between researchers at the University of West Indies, Mona Campus and the University of Southampton. It involves 3-5 year old children spotting numbers in real-world contexts, such as price tags, speed signs, cans of food, and birthday cakes and parents having conversations with their children about the numbers and the contexts that the numbers appear in. It also involves teachers who will follow up the at-home activities with weekly classroom-based activities to reinforce and concretise children’s developing knowledge.

Aims & Objectives

•    Support family engagement and family confidence to engage with early number-related activities at home across diverse socio-cultural contexts;
•    Develop preschool children’s knowledge of the multiple meanings and social uses of written numerals across diverse everyday contexts;
•    Create coherent connections between children’s early number learning experiences in everyday life and their learning at school through the co-development and trial (with Preschool partners) of an adaptable, context-relevant programme of preschool-based activities;
•    Adopt a "strengths-based" methodology for family involvement in learning that recognises diverse families’ existing knowledge base and everyday experiences as valuable resources

Please complete this form to express your school's interest in joining the new cycle of our project from September 2024 – June 2025. Each cycle will be 6-7 weeks long.

A Basic school's participation in the project includes the following:

School
•    Encourage parents to participation in the NiEL programme of activities
•    Distribute project resources to parents
•    Attend training sessions and project meetings, collaborate with researchers

Parent
•    Complete the 6-7 programme of activities with their child.
•    Upload and comment on photos on the project website
•    At the end of the project, complete a questionnaire

Teachers
•    Attend training sessions and project meetings, collaborate with researchers
•    Prepare and implement classroom-based activities once per week.
•    At the end of the project, participate in an online interview.

Your involvement will help support early number learning in your school. It will contribute to our research efforts to improve mathematics teaching learning in Jamaica. If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Dr. Lois George at lois.george02@uwimona.edu.jm or (876) 472 0754.

We look forward to the possibility of collaborating with your Basic School!

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Basic school name *
Basic school address *
Name of contact person *
Position (in school) of contact person *
Basic school phone number *
Basic school email address *
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Number of 3-4 year olds enrolled? *
Number of 4-5 year olds enrolled? *

Socio-economic background of student population (e.g., diverse, low-income, mixed):

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