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ATM - Future Directions
Background
For more than a year now, officers of ATM have been meeting with colleagues from four other ‘classroom facing’ organisations working in the field of mathematics education. This group of five associations comprises AMET, ATM, MA, NAMA and NANAMIC (outline details of the five associations can be found at www.maths-assocs.org.uk ). The group has been meeting as the Meeting of Mathematics Subject Associations (MMSA).
One area of discussion has been if and how the five associations could or should work more closely together. NCETM part-funded the services of an independent facilitator/consultant to support these discussions and, at the request of MMSA, he produced a paper setting out, as he saw it, how each of the five associations currently works. He also set out three possible ways forward.
Please note: this paper will only be available to ATM Members. You will need your username and password.
What’s Happening Now?
All five associations have agreed that the paper should be circulated to all members of each of these associations unchanged and at about the same time in the period on or after 12 March 2009.
Each association also agreed to:
- prepare a ‘front sheet’ contextualising the paper and outlining their plans for taking the matter forward (this statement).
- capture members’ views during a period of consultation, that will run into the summer of 2009.
Your views?
ATM would like its members to read the paper and to take the opportunity to discuss the issues informally at the Easter Conference in Swansea.
Beyond that, the consultation process will be along these lines:
- In May 2009, ATM General Council will publish a paper setting out its vision for the future of ATM, in the form of a report, written in 2014, of the Association in the five years up to that date. This will be placed on the ATM website so that all members can contribute to developing ideas on how ATM might look in the future.
- At the same time as the ‘vision paper’ is published in May, General Council will launch a consultation on the MMSA paper. This will be by email or through the forum on the website so that all members’ views can be taken into account.
- The consultation period will run until the end of June 2009.
And then...
In the light of responses to the consultation, the Executive will draft an ATM ‘position’ on the MMSA paper at its meeting in early July. This will be finalised by the General Council and then shared with all members.
Outcomes of the consultation will be shared with other member associations of MMSA at a meeting in September 2009. No decisions will be made before further discussion at the 2010 AGM of ATM.
