Who can take part?
This professional development is designed for primary teaching assistants who are supporting maths, and who would like to develop their specialist knowledge for teaching maths. This may be particularly relevant for new TAs or TAs that have not received maths-specific training.
What is involved?
This programme supports primary teaching assistants to develop specialist knowledge for teaching maths, complementing teaching for mastery approaches as exemplified in NCETM’s Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery. It will be particularly relevant for individuals who have not received maths-specific training.
Participants will attend the equivalent of four days, where they will collaboratively work on maths tasks, facilitated by Cohort Leads. There is opportunity for structured conversations in order 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 observations through discussions with peers.
What will you learn?
Pupils will:
• use appropriate representations to support their mathematical work.
• be able to explain their maths and their mathematical thinking using appropriate language.
• positively engage with maths that challenges them.
Participants will:
• explore and increase their use of a range of pedagogic approaches consistent with teaching for mastery.
• increase their confidence in supporting pupils in mastering mathematical concepts.
Participants will:
• enhance their maths subject knowledge with an emphasis on the key concepts, the representations and the language used to help pupils develop the mathematical area covered (e.g. number sense, additive reasoning, multiplicative reasoning, fractions).
• identify common misconceptions and ways of addressing these to help pupils master important concepts.
• identify pedagogical approaches that will enhance teaching and learning and know how to use these to support pupils in understanding maths.
• develop an understanding of key principles and approaches associated with teaching for mastery.
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?
The programme will run over the equivalent of 4 days.
How do I sign up?
Click register to express your interest.