This Work Group complements the AMSP’s wider professional development offer by providing a collaborative environment for experienced Core Maths teachers to explore their classroom practice. It is designed to explore and deepen teacher pedagogic content knowledge, empowering teachers to enhance their classroom practice, and to influence Core Maths teaching and learning across their school/college. These Work Groups, uniquely, offer participants the opportunity for continuing Core Maths professional development through collaboration over time.

This project, developed and provided in partnership with the AMSP, will contribute to the wider national effort to support teachers and leaders to increase the growth in uptake and delivery of Core Maths in schools and colleges, and to establish Core Maths as a standard option for post-16 Level 3 students who are not taking A level Maths.

Participants will attend a sequence of sessions led by expert Work Group Leads and supported by central resources and training.

They will:

• work with the Work Group Lead and other participants to explore Core Maths pedagogical themes
• design classroom activities collaboratively to put pedagogic theories and strategies into practice
• trial these activities in their own classrooms, focusing on evaluating impact and student responses
• share, compare and reflect on their classroom experiences with other members of the Work Group

Participants are encouraged to share activities with departmental colleagues and to be advocates for Core Maths in their school/college.

The project is for experienced teachers of Core Maths, in at least their second year of teaching the qualification, who are looking to deepen their pedagogical understanding of contextualised problem solving. These may be teachers in post-16 settings whose main subject is maths or whose main subject is not maths. Participants will be expected, where appropriate, to work with colleagues in their own department.

Participants’ institutions must commit to:

• releasing them to attend all Work Group sessions
• allowing them to develop their practice in their classroom and share this with departmental colleagues

Participants must commit to:

• attending all Work Group sessions and engaging with and completing activities between Work Group sessions.