Work Group Opportunities 21/22
Once again the GLOW Maths Hub will be running FREE Work Groups across the phases and across the GLOW region. All groups will be in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire unless specified. Each group is FREE to participate. Every Work Group is led by a Teacher from the GLOW area, experienced in leading maths specific CPD.
Work Groups are a model of professional and school development used in most Maths Hubs projects. These ‘projects’ – listed below – cover mathematical subject knowledge and pedagogy in all educational phases. More information can be found here and you can register your interest here.
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Early Years/Primary
Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics - Primary Early Careers Teachers
This project is designed to support primary 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 pupils in maths in the classroom
Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics - Early Years Programme
This project is designed to support Early Years teachers in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom.
Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics - Primary Teachers Programme
This project is designed to support Early Years teachers in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom.
Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics - Teaching Assistant Programme
This project is designed to support Teaching Assistants in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in maths in the classroom.
Years 5-8 Continuity
Work Groups in this project aim to strengthen the transition from Primary to Secondary school by focusing on curriculum and pedagogical continuity over years 5 to 8. Central to the Work Group is the promotion of cross phase communication between teachers to address issues of maths knowledge and learning transition and distinct from pastoral considerations. Whilst many Work Groups will focus on using multiplicative reasoning resources, work groups can explore any aspects of the KS2/3 curriculum.
Secondary
NEW FOR 2021/22!! - Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics - Secondary Early Careers 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 pupils in maths in the classroom.
NEW FOR 2021/22!! - Secondary Subject Leadership
This new project offers focused support to secondary heads of department/subject leaders, to enable them to better understand and implement teaching for mastery approaches across their department, and to develop in their role as leaders of both student learning and teacher professional development.
It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their understanding of teaching for mastery approaches, of their wider roles, and of their capacity with their colleagues to transform secondary maths learning.
NEW FOR 2021/22!! - Subject Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics - Secondary Non - Specialist Teachers (Glos & Worc)
This project is designed to support non-specialist teachers teaching maths in a secondary school in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support students in maths in the classroom.
Years 7 to 11 Coherence - was Challenging Topics at GCSE
This project focuses on participant teachers working together to analyse, deconstruct and trace through the curriculum a selected key topic area, developing insight into effective teaching approaches, and considering the implications for longer term curriculum design.
The project was previously known as Challenging Topics at GCSE, but its name has been amended to more accurately reflect the work undertaken as well as to convey the importance of curriculum coherence.
Mathematical Thinking for GCSE
The Mathematical Thinking for GCSE project is for secondary maths teachers looking for practical and theoretical elements to address their students’ GCSE attainment.
The stated aims of the KS4 Programme of Study are that, through working on the content, students should develop mathematical fluency, mathematical reasoning and problem solving. While mathematical thinking is a key feature of all of these, the focus of this Work Group is to support teachers in developing their understanding of mathematical thinking as it relates to problem-solving and reasoning, using practical task types to explore what it means for students to get better at mathematical thinking and what this looks like in the classroom.
Years 5-8 Continuity
Work Groups in this project aim to strengthen the transition from Primary to Secondary school by focusing on curriculum and pedagogical continuity over years 5 to 8. Central to the Work Group is the promotion of cross phase communication between teachers to address issues of maths knowledge and learning transition and distinct from pastoral considerations. Whilst many Work Groups will focus on using multiplicative reasoning resources, work groups can explore any aspects of the KS2/3 curriculum.
Level 3 (Post 16)
Core Maths Pedagogy
These Work Groups give teachers opportunities, through collaboration and experimentation, to develop improved teaching approaches that support the open-ended problem-solving skills Core Maths students need to develop, and to share these with departmental colleagues. Participant departments will support the role of Core Maths in promoting contextualised problem-solving and links to teaching in other subject areas.
The project involves a direct working partnership between the Maths Hubs Network and the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP).
Developing A Level Pedagogy
This project provides national support for the effective development of pedagogy in the teaching of A level Mathematics to support Covid recovery, to enhance the quality of teaching and the conceptual understanding of students, and the development of participants as leaders of A level teaching professional development in their own school or college. It aims to develop and sustain local communities of practice involving collaboration between teachers in developing pedagogy in their teaching of A level Maths.
The project involves a direct working partnership between the Maths Hubs Network and the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP).
NEW FOR 2021/22!! - New to Teaching Core Maths
The purpose of this programme is to support teachers who are new to teaching Core Maths in developing specialist knowledge for teaching Core Maths and to increase their confidence in teaching the course. The programme has a primary focus on Core Maths subject knowledge and pedagogy and will be based on these six key themes which are common to all the Core Maths specifications:
• Using contextualised problem-solving • Making sense of finance
• Applying Fermi estimation and modelling • Using the pre-release materials
• Developing critical analysis • Exploring statistics.
Technology and online teaching will be underlying themes throughout the programme.
This project involves a direct working partnership between the Maths Hubs Network and the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP).