Secondary teaching for Mastery – Embedding and Sustaining Work Groups

Secondary Teaching for Mastery Embedding and Sustaining Work Groups are for all departments that have previously participated in Teaching for Mastery Development Work Groups and all Cohort 1-5 Mastery Specialist Departments. Our diagram shows a school’s journey towards mastery. Use it to determine where your school’s journey starts (click/tap diagram to show a larger version with more detail of the journey).

Who can take part?

Participation is for schools that have either participated in Development Work Groups or the Mastery Specialist Programme. Lead participants continue to be Mastery Advocates, and key teachers from a Mastery Specialist’s department. Particular Work Group sessions may also be joined by participants’ departmental colleagues.

What is involved?

This project is for departments who participated in a Secondary Teaching for Mastery Development Work Group, or who have a member of their department who is part of the Mastery Specialist Programme. Mastery Advocates will meet regularly throughout the year, and the content of departments’ development plans will be the stimulus for how joint work will be devised and undertaken. Focus will be on the department’s planned developments, as well as sharing and critiquing them with a group of schools in a professional learning community.

Schools which are taking part in sustaining teaching for mastery would normally commit to two teachers engaging in three full days of training each over the course of the year. In order to give you more options and flexibility, this year we are offering six different strands of training. Two are full strands, comprising three full days of training, the other three are half strands, comprising 3 half days or equivalent. You are invited to register for a minimum of 6 full days of training in total which can be spread across more than two teachers and more than two strands. There is no upper limit to how many strands and how many teachers you can register. Details of the foci or strands for 2024/25 are below.

Strand	Name of strand	Details
1	Developing mathematical thinking	Focus on strategies for problem solving for use with students. Teachers who have attended this strand in 2023/24 should not sign up for this again.
2	New to teaching for mastery	For teachers who are not experienced with teaching for mastery approaches. Teachers who have attended this strand in 2023/24 should not sign up for this again.
4	Leading teaching for mastery	For teachers who lead teaching and learning in their department. Teachers who have attended this strand in 2023/24 would be welcome to continue with this work group and should sign up again.
5	Developing fluency with multiplicative reasoning	Focus on a coherent approach to all areas of multiplicative reasoning across the curriculum

What will you learn?

Your students will develop a deep, secure and connected understanding of the maths they are learning
You will continue to develop teaching for mastery approaches consistently across your department
You and your department will collaborate to create a coherent curriculum in a culture of professional learning
You will develop and implement a coherent and ambitious sustained development plan

What is the cost?

The Secondary Teaching for Mastery – Embedding and Sustaining project is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.

Applications for Work Groups starting in September 2024 are now open. Please access the application form via the button below.

Secondary teaching for Mastery – Embedding and Sustaining Work Groups

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