Alice Hehir teaches on the Early Primary and General Primary PGCE course at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Her main subject area is maths alongside teaching professional studies. She is a personal and partnership tutor which involves visiting PGCE students whilst on placement in local schools. She supports PGCE students with their subject knowledge development, particularly in maths.
Alice recently gained an MPhil in Primary Education, which had a focus on curriculum development in maths. Her research project was on teachers’ attitudes towards maths schemes of work.
Alice currently supports both PGCE and master’s students with assignment writing. Supervising master’s students enables Alice to continue to develop her understanding of a broad range of issues related to current research in primary education.
Prior to work in Initial Teacher Education, she was a teacher in several primary schools. She mainly led the subject of maths within the school but also held other curriculum leadership positions in the subjects of music, RE, PE and PSHE. She was the lead mentor for the school and mentored several PGCE students as well as ECTs.
Alice has close links with the Cambridge Maths Hub, regularly meeting with others who work in Initial Teacher Education as well as sitting on its strategic board. Within the Faculty of Education, Alice has taken on leadership roles which include chairing the only whole staff meeting as well as sitting on its research committee. Alice is a member of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics.