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Our Secondary school projects range from very specific Work Groups that are focused upon particular issues (such as mathematical thinking) to our much broader Teaching for Mastery programmes that involve schools moving through three phases – mastery development, embedding and sustaining.
For further reading about our approach to Teaching for Mastery, please see this NCETM link – The Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery | NCETM
Now Recruiting - Secondary Mastery Specialists 2024/25
Want to become a specialist in teaching for mastery and support your own and other schools to develop teaching for mastery approaches? Join the Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme. During the Programme you will receive fully funded professional development from experts, have time to develop your own expertise, and then to support others.
Any teacher (excluding ECTs) who is teaching maths in a state-funded secondary school in England and who wishes to develop both their own classroom practice and their skills in leading professional development with others can apply to become a Secondary Mastery Specialist.
Please read this information document very carefully before submitting an application.
What is involved?
The Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme enables secondary maths teachers to become experts in teaching for mastery, so they in turn can develop maths departments that are well-led, high-performing, and provide high-quality professional development through collaborative working.
Over a minimum of three years, participants first work on their own understanding and practice, then with their own department, then with other departments as a Local Leader of Maths Education for their Maths Hub.
All the time, you keep in touch with other specialists across the country in online groups. You can share experiences and continue developmental conversations.
To support you in developing your role as a leader of professional development you will be enrolled in the NCETM’s PD Lead Programme during the second year of the Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme.
What is the cost?
The Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.
How can you find out more?
To watch videos from our Mastery Specialists, find out more about mastery in our case studies and take a more detailed look at the Mastery Specialist Programme visit the NCETM website here – Secondary Mastery Specialists | NCETM.
How to Apply
Ensure you have read the information document above, and spoken to your local Maths Hub. Then complete the application form online.
Now Recruiting - Professional Development Lead Programmes 2024/25
NCETM Professional Development Lead accreditation is designed for those who lead professional development for teachers of maths.
Who can take part?
These programmes are for expert teachers of maths (all phases from Early Years to post-16) who have existing commitments and responsibility for designing, leading and evaluating maths teacher professional development, and who will lead maths professional development beyond their own institution. Participants must be based at a school/institution in England.
Please read this information document very carefully before submitting an application.
What is involved?
The PD Lead Programme is designed for participants who are working with other teachers to enhance teaching and learning of maths.
Participants benefit from the equivalent of three one-day workshops (face-to-face and online). The completion of an Accreditation Evidence Document, which facilitates critical reflection on participants’ learning and the professional development they design, deliver and evaluate over the year, is also required. Participants will design, lead, review and refine a programme of support for maths teacher professional development, drawing upon a range of evidence-informed models and activity.
What will you learn?
- You will design, lead, review and refine a professional development programme
- You will critically evaluate your own professional development programme against your intended outcomes
- You will identify key principles of maths CPD design and the implications of these for the programme you design
- You will recognise the key distinction between teachers’ knowledge of maths, and teachers’ knowledge of teaching maths
Participants will also have the opportunity to pay to work with the University of Chester and gain an academic award (PG Cert) for completing an enhanced version of the programme.
What is the cost?
The Professional Development Lead Programmes are fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so are free to participants and their schools.
How to Apply
Ensure you have read the information document above, and spoken to your local Maths Hub. Then complete the application form online.
Now Recruiting – School Development Lead Programme 2024/25
Who can take part?
The programme is for colleagues working with school and subject leaders to improve maths teaching and learning in a school or group of schools other than their own. Normally, participants will have previously completed the NCETM PD Lead Programme. Participants will be expected to commit to the full programme of activities and will need the support of the headteacher of their own school and/or their MAT. The programme is for teachers working in England only.
Please read this information document very carefully before submitting an application.
What is involved?
This programme is specifically designed to enable the leaders of maths school development to enhance leadership capacity and capability in the schools they support. It will provide regional support through workshops (face-to-face run regionally across England, and online), practice development activities, and an online community.
Participants design and lead a maths school development initiative, working with school and subject leadership. They must maintain a reflection and learning log, and a record of their initiative.
What will you learn?
- You will develop your knowledge of a range of maths school development strategies and know why, when, and how to use them effectively
- You will strengthen your knowledge of the evidence base that underpins school development and change management
- You will design and lead collaborative maths school development initiatives
- You will increase your awareness of the skills needed by a maths school development lead and have a deeper self-awareness in relation to the role
What is the cost?
The School Development Lead Programme is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participants and their schools.
How to Apply
Ensure you have read the information document above, and spoken to your local Maths Hub. Then complete the application form online.
Now Recruiting - Secondary Teaching for Mastery Development 2024/25
Being part of the Secondary Teaching for Mastery Development Programme will give you and your school chance to develop your whole maths department, and have an impact on the students you teach.
Who can take part?
Whether you want to take a teaching for mastery approach in your own classroom and department, or introduce mastery in both your own school and beyond, we have a CPD opportunity for you. The NCETM and Maths Hubs are offering funded professional development activities, available in 2024/25.
In 2024/25, there is also the opportunity for teachers who work in special schools to come together to join a regional cross-phase Development Work Group. Primary and secondary special school teachers will work together to develop teaching for mastery in their own contexts.
Please contact our Secondary Leads Jayne and Lorna for more details – lgoulding@ourladyofpity.co.uk and j.watts@alsagerschool.org
Please note: this project is for state-funded secondary schools in England.
What is involved?
Secondary maths teachers whose schools want to introduce teaching for mastery can nominate two teachers (‘Mastery Advocates’) to join a Work Group. Mastery Advocates then form part of a locally-based group of teachers who meet regularly to develop professional knowledge and expertise, and receive bespoke support.
Teachers will collaborate with colleagues from local schools, and get support and guidance from a Secondary Mastery Specialist, to introduce and embed teaching for mastery in their department.
Mastery Advocates
The fully funded programme enables you and another teacher from your school to become ‘Mastery Advocates’. Initially you will be part of a Work Group for a year. You will also get in-school support from a Mastery Specialist. Beyond the first year, you will continue to work with your local Maths Hub and take part in a Work Group as you embed mastery across your department.
This programme is for state-funded secondary schools in England. Mastery Advocates should be teachers with the commitment, experience and authority to lead developmental work across a maths department. The support of the head of maths, and the headteacher or a member of SLT, is also essential.
What is the cost?
The Secondary Teaching for Mastery – Development project is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.
How to Apply
Please fill in the Google application form – Secondary Mastery Development
Now Recruiting - Secondary Teaching for Mastery Embedding Year Support 2024/25
Who can take part?
Participation is for maths departments in schools that took part in a Secondary Teaching for Mastery Development Work Group in 2023/24. Lead participants will ideally be the Mastery Advocates who participated in 2023/24 Work Groups.
What is involved?
Secondary Teaching for Mastery Embedding Year Support is available for those departments who participated in the previous year’s Secondary Teaching for Mastery Development Work Group, and who are beginning to embed their work on teaching for mastery. Mastery Advocates (designated previously in the Development Work Group) will work closely with an assigned Mastery Specialist to help them embed teaching for mastery approaches across the whole department. Specialists will provide three days of bespoke support tailored to each school.
The focus will be on constructing or refining a coherent development plan and supporting and leading the whole department in realising the aims of that development plan. The school will also be part of a Secondary Teaching for Mastery Embedding and Sustaining Work Group with other schools.
What will you learn?
- Your students will develop a deep, secure and connected understanding of the maths they are learning
- You will begin to develop teaching for mastery approaches across your department
- You and your department will collaborate to create coherent curriculums in a culture of professional learning
- You will produce a development plan and professional development programme for the department
What is the cost?
The Secondary Teaching for Mastery – Embedding Year Support project is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.
How to Apply
Please fill in the Google application form – Secondary Mastery Embedding