Subject Knowledge for Secondary Early Career Teachers

This project is designed to support secondary early career teachers (teachers in their first two years of teaching) in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support students in maths in the classroom.

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Who can take part?

This project is for those identified as Early Career Teachers – teachers in their first or second year of teaching.

Please note that this is a 2 year programme with 4 days in each year.

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What is involved?

This maths-specific subject knowledge project is designed to support secondary Early Career Teachers (ECTs). 

The content this year focuses on Sequences and Graphs, and looks at the links between sequences, graphs, and many related mathematical topics, with key foci being the use of reasoning, fluency and variation.

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What will you learn?

• Your students will reason with increasing confidence in response to effective questioning within the classroom
• You will consider task and lesson design, with your students’ needs in mind
• You will notice aspects of teaching for mastery within a given task or lesson, and be able to articulate their purpose

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What is the cost? 

The Subject Knowledge for Secondary Early Career Teachers programme is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.