Secondary Teaching for Mastery
What Does the Teaching for Mastery Work Group Entail?
Year 1 - Developing Teaching for Mastery
Who? A teacher with maths leadership responsibility and another teacher.
Outcomes: The Teacher Research Groups and school visits aim to support the two participant teachers in understanding the Big 5 ideas of Teaching for Mastery.
Commitment: 5 full day Work Shops with a showcase lesson. Each school gets 5 half day bespoke support visits from their mastery specialist.
Cost: £2,000 funding for each school for full participation.
Year 2 - Embedding Teaching for Mastery
Who? A teacher with maths leadership responsibility and another teacher.
Outcomes: The department through bespoke support will implement Teaching for Mastery throughout the maths department.
Commitment: Each school gets 5 half day bespoke support visits from their mastery specialist. Also, opportunity to access to showcase lessons.
Funding: £1,000 for each school for full participation.
Year 3 - Sustaining Teaching for Mastery
Who? A teacher with maths leadership responsibility and another teacher.
Outcomes: The school will access local networks, and bespoke Work Groups to develop specific issues within their school.
Commitment: 2 full day Work Shops with showcase lessons and 2 half day Work Shops.
Funding: Free
Year 1: Developing Teaching for Mastery
The Secondary Developing Teaching for Mastery programme provides the opportunity for participants to develop their teaching practice around Teaching for Mastery.
There is the opportunity to observe and reflect on teaching in context, usually at a Mastery Specialist’s school which would also include an element of professional development based around the 5 big ideas. The programme also includes school visits by the Work Group lead to participants school, which offers the opportunity to build on good practice within school.
Year 2: Embedding Teaching for Mastery
Following on from the Developing Teaching for Mastery programme, participants on the Embedding Teaching for Mastery are encouraged to work on embedding their good practice with more of a focus on how that can be developed and embedded across their school setting.
The participants are supported throughout with visits by their appointed Secondary Mastery Specialist who will help guide the implementation of Mastery within the school.
Year 3: Sustaining Teaching for Mastery
Currently our most extensive programme, Sustaining Teaching for Mastery is open to members of departments in schools that have completed the previous programmes and are now ready to continue their department’s investment in Teaching for Mastery in their school.
The Sustaining programme gives schools access to a range of workshops and open classrooms. This programme is for all schools within West Yorkshire who have taken part in the Teaching for Mastery Programme providing the chance to collaborate with a wider audience.
FAQ's
Here’s some frequently asked questions about our Teaching for Mastery Programmes.
Contact us at: wymh@westyorkshiremathshub.co.uk
If your school has completed the first 3 years of the programme, you can still see our Sustaining offer above.
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