This two-year programme is for secondary teachers who have a passion and enthusiasm for teaching for mastery, and a successful track record of working effectively with other professionals within their own school or across a group of schools.
In the first year, nominated lead teachers will develop their knowledge, understanding and skills of teaching for mastery, with five and a half days at central events, and two days of personal development in their own school.
Lead teachers will continue to develop their own classroom practices during the second year, but will also focus on improving the knowledge and skills of all members of their department in order to explore, develop and implement department-wide systems for teaching for mastery.
Secondary Teaching for Mastery Work Group
This Work Group provides high quality, professional development through collaborative working and bespoke support for individual departments or Trusts. This is achieved by:
- collaboration with colleagues within departments, within Trusts or from other local schools to share best practice.
- individual school or Trust support and guidance from a local leader of maths education (LLME)
- bespoke support from Maths Hub Leadership for school or department priorities where appropriate
- focus on embedding teaching for mastery ideas in the classroom and department
The intention of this Work Group is for teaching for mastery to be developed across the entire department. Consequently, all Work Groups should include a continual thread of implementation, supporting participants to work effectively with other members of their department. Within each Work Group, participants will also have an opportunity for collaborative lesson observation.
A pair of participants from each school will join the Work Group and the pair will ideally comprise at least one Mastery Specialist or Mastery Advocate. Work Groups will meet for the equivalent of three days across the year; some of this might be online and some might be face-to-face.