Secondary Early Career Teachers (SKTM)
BackSpecialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics: Secondary Early Career Teachers Programme
This one-year programme supports early career secondary teachers to develop their specialist knowledge for teaching maths, underpinned by the principles of teaching for mastery.
What Will You Learn?
Participants will:
- Observe student engagement to reflect on and adapt their teaching practice.
- Develop expertise in maths-specific pedagogies aligned with teaching for mastery and the ITTECF framework.
- Understand and articulate the purpose of teaching for mastery elements in lessons.
- Recognise and respond to students’ learning behaviours effectively.
- Identify challenging content and plan appropriate adaptations to support learning.
- Collaborate with colleagues and mentors to share insights and professional learning.
- Design and adapt tasks with student needs and learning behaviours in mind.
- Anticipate student responses to improve questioning and lesson delivery.
Students will:
- Engage with confidence when faced with appropriately challenging content within a task.
- Reason with increasing confidence in response to effective questioning within the classroom.
What is involved?
Teachers will:
- Attend a combination of four afternoon sessions alongside two further days where they will enhance subject expertise and practice development. Between sessions, participants will contribute to an online community, complete school-based tasks, and share their reflections through discussions with peers.
Who can take part?
This programme supports secondary early career teachers to develop specialist knowledge for teaching maths, complementing teaching for mastery approaches as exemplified in NCETM’s Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery. Participants will be those identified as having recently started their teaching career; for this programme that means teachers in their second or third year of teaching.
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