Rate My Professor Jennifer Way

In her career at the University of Sydney, Way serves as the Undergraduate Primary Education Program Director and was Primary Program Manager for the Sydney STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy from 2017 to 2024, delivering evidence-based professional learning for primary teachers in interdisciplinary STEM projects. She leads the Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics and Science (ELEMS) project (2021-2024), funded by the NSW Department of Education's Strategic Research Fund, which develops teaching strategies, professional learning resources, and assesses the impact of embodied activities on number sense development for pre-school to Year 2 students. Key publications include "Supporting Pre-School Children’s Number Learning Through Embodied Representation" (2025, Education Sciences), "Turn left, turn right: An embodied perspective on children’s difficulties with left/right spatial orientations" (2024), "Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics Education: Translating Research into Principles to Inform Teaching" (2024, Education Sciences), "Approaches to investigating young children’s mathematical activity" (2023, Mathematics Education Research Journal), and contributions to books such as "Understanding Mathematics for Young Children." Her work influences classroom practices by promoting visual, embodied, and multiple representations to enhance conceptual understanding in early mathematics.