This is an exciting opportunity for your school to engage with a highly-regarded programme that supports non-specialist teachers develop their identity and practice as a mathematics teacher, while helping to address the challenge of recruiting maths teachers.
Who can take part?
To participate, schools must meet the following criteria:
• Be a state-funded secondary school or college within England
• Have a non-specialist teacher, who has not undertaken Initial Teacher Training in mathematics.
• Be able to release the non-specialist teacher for all training sessions
What is involved?
What does the programme involve?
The SKTM Programme comprises six days’ worth of training for non-specialist teachers, spread across an academic year. Teachers engage in 18 topic-based sessions and work collaboratively on maths tasks (within a workbook) to explore subject knowledge, pedagogy, and common misconceptions among pupils. Teachers are also tasked with school-based challenges that encourage them to apply their training in their classrooms.
- The Ofsted Maths Report Guidance for Non-specialists highlights the need for secondary schools to make sure that non-specialist teachers receive the necessary professional development to teach maths effectively.
- Podcast episode: The PE teacher in the maths department - featuring a discussion with Nic Trubridge, the NCETM’s Director for School and Professional Development, a non-specialist maths teacher and his head of department.
What will you learn?
What are the benefits of participating?
This SKTM Programme aims to improve participants’ subject and curriculum knowledge of secondary mathematics, with a particular emphasis on mathematical structures. Participants will increase their use of a range of pedagogic approaches consistent with teaching for mastery, leading to an improvement in pupils’ knowledge of, understanding of, and attitudes towards mathematics.
What is the cost?
The programme is fully funded by the DfE through the Maths Hubs Programme. Schools will need to ensure that there is staff cover for the non-specialist teacher to attend all the training.
Next Steps
The 2025-26 cohort is now full. Please register your interest to join the programme in 2026-27.