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Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Maths – Secondary Early Career Teachers

This project is designed to support secondary early career teachers (teachers in their first two years of teaching) in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support students in maths in the classroom.

Participants will work deeply on one area of maths, drawing in the associated pedagogy, and activities will include lesson analysis and lesson design. This programme will take place across the equivalent of four days.

What will you learn?

Participants will:

  • plan and teach a carefully sequenced and coherent area of maths
  • appreciate the key ideas underpinning the area of maths being taught
  • understand key principles and approaches associated with teaching for mastery
  • understand approaches to assess students’ prior learning, so that learning sequences take this into account
  • make appropriate use of representations to expose the structure of the maths being taught

Through collaboration with colleagues, participants will plan and teach a carefully sequenced and coherent area of mathematics, by:

  • identifying essential concepts, knowledge, skills within the topic area and providing opportunity for all pupils to learn and master these critical components
  • ensuring pupils’ thinking is focused on key ideas within the topic area
  • evaluating and adapting existing resources to enable them to be used to meet the needs of pupils
  • being aware of common misconceptions and exploring ways of handling them to help pupils master important concepts

Who can apply?

This programme is designed for secondary early career teachers (those in their first or second year of teaching).

What is the cost?

This training is fully funded by the Maths Hubs programme and so is free to participating schools.

Dates

Dates for Year 1 ECTs (those who are new to the programme in the 2023 – 24 academic year):

Wednesday 8th November
Thursday 11th January 2024 (this is an online session via Zoom from 2 – 4pm)
Wednesday 20th March
Tuesday 23rd April (this is an online session via Zoom from 2 – 4pm)
Tuesday 2nd July

Sessions 1, 3 and 5 will be taking place in person from 9:30am – 2:30pm. The venue for all in person sessions will be Chorlton Park Primary School, Mauldeth Road West, Chorlton, M21 7HH.

 

Year 2 ECT Programmes (the below arrangements are for those who began the ECT Programme with NW1 Maths Hub in the 2022 – 23 academic year, and are going into their second year).

Wednesday 15th November
Thursday 18th January 2024 (this session is online via Zoom from 2 – 4pm)
Tuesday 16th April
Wednesday 8th May (this session is online via Zoom from 2 – 4pm)
Thursday 4th July (F2F)

Sessions 1, 3 and 5 will be taking place in person from 9:30am – 2:30pm. The venue for all in person sessions will be Chorlton Park Primary School, Mauldeth Road West, Chorlton, M21 7HH.