SECONDARY MASTERY PROGRAMME

We have opportunities available now for you and your department to get involved.

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.

Mastery Advocate Work Group

This is our DEVELOPMENT programme. It will involve two teachers from your school.

The Mastery Advocate programme is for secondary maths teachers whose schools want to introduce and embed teaching for mastery. The fully-funded programme enables you and another teacher from your school to become ‘Mastery Advocates’. In the first year, you will be part of a Work Group of locally-based teachers, led by a Secondary Mastery Specialist, who meet regularly to develop professional knowledge and expertise. You will also get bespoke in-school support from your Mastery Specialist.

This opportunity is suitable for all maths teachers, from NQTs to Heads of Department. It requires the support of your headteacher or your senior leadership link.

After year one you will progress into the EMBEDDING programme.

Mastery Embedding Work Group

This is our EMBEDDING programme. It will involve two teachers from your school and a commitment from the department as a whole.

If your school has already taken part in the development programme then you are eligible to apply for the embedding programme. This is your second year working with your Mastery Specialist to carry on developments in the maths department. Your own mastery advocates will lead this in your school, working closely with your department and the advocates from partner schools nearby. This is a fully-funded workgroup. The project is linked to the SUSTAINING programme and you will also benefit from working with schools now in the third year of their mastery journey.

After year two you will then move onto the SUSTAINING programme.

Mastery Sustaining Work Group

This is our SUSTAINING programme and brings together schools on their second, third or fourth year of developing teaching for mastery.

If this is your third year of your mastery journey, you join this work group and share your developments with other schools. Now you are at the sustaining phase of your mastery work. In your second year, as an embedding school, you will automatically have membership of this work group in order to learn from the wider and more experienced participants.

This work group refines the systems already in place in your school and helps you to sustain your teaching for mastery curriculum approaches. You will be encouraged to develop a collaborative approach to the professional development that your staff still need as they hone their mathematical pedagogy. Your mastery advocates will be working with your Mastery Specialist to create those bespoke training opportunities and to share the very best practice from your local partner schools.

The Mastery Specialist’s own school will also be part of this work group.