Who can take part?
This professional development is for Primary Early Career Teachers (ECTs) in their second or third year of teaching the primary phase – not suitable for teachers in their first year of teaching.
What is involved?
This project supports Primary Early Career Teachers (ECTs) to develop specialist knowledge for teaching maths, complementing teaching for mastery approaches as exemplified in NCETM’s Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery. This project aligns with the ECT Expertise in Teaching Maths Modules.
Participants will attend the equivalent of four days over one academic year, where they will collaboratively work on maths tasks, facilitated by Cohort Leads. There is an opportunity for structured conversations to unpick the maths, the pedagogy modelled within sessions, misconceptions that pupils have, and how the approaches can be transferred to the participants’ classrooms. Between sessions, participants contribute to their online community, complete school-based tasks, and share their reflections through discussions with peers (including their mentor).
What are the intended outcomes?
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Pupils will:
• engage positively with challenging content.
• discuss, share and elaborate their mathematical ideas with appropriate language and representations.
Participants will:
• observe learning to identify how children are approaching their maths and review the implications of these observations for their practice.
• consider task and lesson design, with their pupils’ needs in mind, adapting where necessary.
• work constructively with colleagues and mentors, sharing with them the professional learning taking place within this programme.
Participants will:
• enhance their maths subject knowledge with an emphasis on the key concepts, the representations, and the language used to help pupils develop their understanding.
• identify common misconceptions and ways of addressing these to help pupils master important concepts.
• develop their expertise in maths specific pedagogies aligned to teaching for mastery and the ITTECF.
What is the cost?
This project is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.
What is the time commitment?
Participants will attend the equivalent of up to four days of sessions, focusing between sessions on the use of tasks in the classroom.
How do I sign up?
Click Register to express your interest.