ICMI Online Seminar Series Resources
ICMI Online Seminar Series for Capacity Building: Strengthening Mathematics Teacher Education
The main goal of the online seminar series is to establish international dialogue on good content-specific practices to strengthen mathematics teacher educators for mathematics and mathematics education courses and to hear experienced and inspiring mathematics teacher educators report on their work. While this is mainly bound to the synchronous meeting, the ideas and treated core activities can also be used after the seminar.
On this website, we offer the video recordings and materials for individual adaptation in different mathematics teacher education contexts.
Seminar 1 (October 2026)
Monday, October 12, 2026
4:00PM – 6:00PM (Pakistan Standard Time PKT, UTC +5)
Anjum Halai (Pakistan):
Language-supportive teaching in mathematics: Lessons for teacher educators’ practice
Main ideas of the seminar on mathematics education for preservice teachers:
- Many students in the world (not only in low-income contexts) have to learn mathematics in other than their family language.
- Preservice mathematics teachers should thereby be prepared to include multiple languages and promote productive language transitions.
- We work on problems (for the example of area and perimeter) to initiate pedagogical reflections on mathematical and language-related learning outcomes
Materials from the seminar:
- Anjum Halai’s and Susanne Prediger’s Slides from the online seminar (pdf)
- Video recording of the online seminar (YouTube Link)
- Anjum Halai’s worksheet for mathematics teacher education: Analyzing and adapting problems with respect to mathematical and language-related learning outcomes and adapting the problems to provide support for language transitions (doc)
Further sources for preparing teachers for multi-language-responsive teaching
- Halai, A., & Muzaffar, I. (2016). Language of Instruction and Learners’ Participation in Mathematics: Dynamics of distributive justice in the classroom. In A. Halai & P. Clarkson (Eds.), Teaching and learning mathematics in multilingual classrooms: Issues for policy and practice (pp. 57–72). Sense. http://tinyurl.com/qzrk4k6
- UNESCO (2016). If you don’t understand, how can you learn. https://en.unesco.org/news/40-don-t-access-education-language-they-understand
- Schüler-Meyer, A., Uribe, Á., Prediger, S., Meaney, T. et al. (2025). Unpacking mathematical concepts in multiple languages. https://sima.dzlm.de/um/multiple-languages (Videos and materials on classroom use of multiple languages)
More Material from same authors: https://multilingualmath.nl/materials/
Seminar 2 (November 2026)
Friday, November 27, 2026
1:30PM - 3:30PM (Mumbai Time, UTC +5:30)
Ruchi Kumar (India):
Creating mathematical possibilities: What under-resourced contexts teach us about teacher development
Seminar 3 (January 2027)
Tuesday, January 12, 2027
9:00AM –11:00AM (Chile time, UTC – 3)
Patricio Felmer (Chile):
Promoting preservice teachers’ mathematical problem-solving experiences
Seminar 4 (February 2027)
Monday, February 15, 2027
10:00AM - 12PM (South Africa Time, UTC +2)