Who can take part?
The community is for MAT maths leads overseeing multiple schools, and is open to both new and returning participants. To benefit from this community, MATs should support their participating maths lead to attend the equivalent of three days and take part in inter-sessional activity.
What is involved?
This community supports those who lead maths across a MAT to embed teaching for mastery at scale. Participants will deepen their understanding of effective pedagogy and leadership roles, and build capacity with colleagues to transform maths teaching and learning.
This maths-specific community will provide opportunities (face-to-face and online) to work collaboratively with experts to understand national education landscape developments, and to put policy into operation.
What are the intended outcomes?
Participants and their schools’ maths leaders will:
• promote and develop a shared vision, culture and set of principles for effective teaching and learning in maths.
• ensure that there are approaches in place to improve outcomes for students and to meet the professional development needs of teachers in a sustainable way.
• ensure that the curriculum design is coherent and translates into schemes of work which are well established and provide pedagogical content knowledge to support for teaching for mastery across their schools.
Participants will:
• work with subject leaders across their MAT to lead and manage maths teaching effectively and to develop teaching for mastery approaches within their own schools.
• develop a coherent and connected curriculum which promotes teaching for deep and sustainable understanding.
• develop collaborative ways of working:
– with peers to reflect on and develop their own working practice
– within and across their schools to support ongoing developments
• develop as leaders of curriculum and pedagogical change in order that they can:
– support all of their schools in implementing a teaching for mastery approach
– develop as leaders of professional development, both with teachers and teacher leaders.
Participants will:
• have a deep understanding of the practices aligned to those in the NCETM’s Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery.
• have a clear understanding of the leadership and management skills required to enable them to effectively promote and develop principled teaching approaches within their schools.
• understand the principles and practices behind the creation of a coherent and connected curriculum which promotes teaching for deep and connected understanding.
• understand the benefits of collaborative professional development for sustained development of professional knowledge and practice: for themselves; within a department; across groups of schools.
• develop an understanding of effective models of maths teacher professional development, the rationale for using them, and the evidence that supports them.
MAT maths leads will:
• have opportunities to work collaboratively with their peers, building an ongoing learning culture and fostering wider professional relationships.
• have their thinking constructively challenged and develop new ideas, including through critical engagement with research and other literature.
• through engaging with peers, gain confidence in articulating their vision for maths to both middle and senior leaders, including developing objective criticality towards educational initiatives.
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 need to be supported by their MAT to attend the equivalent of three days over the academic year.
They are also expected to take part in any inter-sessional learning that supports their work on the programme to develop themselves and others. Examples of such activity might include auditing an aspect of pedagogy or curriculum across the trust; reflection, action-planning and vision-setting; working strategically with groups of leaders or teachers; working collaboratively with groups of teachers or students; or delivering professional development to groups of teachers or leaders.
In addition, there is an active and supportive online community of MAT maths leads on this project that participants are encouraged to contribute to.
How do I sign up?
Click Register to secure your place.