Initial and in-service training of teachers of statistics: In-service training to assist junior high school teachers to implement new syllabus in statistics

The introduction of statistics into local mathematics syllabuses in 1984 has stimulated much activity in the field of teacher education, in both pre- and in-service courses. Bearing in mind that "the teaching of statistics is substantially more difficult than many other branches of mathematics", that most of our teachers have an inadequate background in statistics and that few of them have taken a methods course covering the teaching of the subject, it was clear that there was a need for some form of in-service education and training to help teachers at the junior high school level to implement the new syllabus. Thus a short in-service course was designed to meet the needs of these teachers.