By co-developing your CPD programme, you can be confident it aligns with your teachers’ individual development needs and their students’ learning goals. The programme will work around your teachers’ learning styles and time pressures, as well as your budget, to maximise staff participation and buy-in.
Further, as a specialist in Variation Theory, I can deepen your teachers’ appreciation and application of teaching for mastery, a robust, evidence-based teaching method shown to encourage conceptual learning in mathematics.
They will feel empowered to think about the content differently as well as plan and differentiate work more efficiently. Crucially, your students will develop deeper thinking skills. As a result, your CPD funding will achieve more sustainable outcomes for both students and teachers alike.
Professional development for teaching staff
Bespoke support for individuals or groups. This might include observations with feedback and mentoring to help support members of staff in their professional growth.
Supporting subject leads
Bespoke support for subject leads to develop and consolidate both their subject and pedagogical expertise. This may extend to helping them communicate the what, how, and why of the three I‘s in their school.
Curriculum support
The three I’s – intent, implementation, and impact. Intelligent curriculum progression, deliberately designed to build on students’ previous knowledge and support them to make deeper conceptual links and improve fluency.
Strategies to promote deeper thinking in maths
Practical strategies for how teachers can use meta-cognitive methods to support learners to think more deeply.
Variation Theory
Variation Theory permeates the teaching for mastery approach. I offer a variety of workshops ranging from an introduction to variation theory to how it can be employed to raise student awareness of underlying mathematical structures.
Learning study
A learning study takes the same format as a lesson study but is theoretically underpinned by Variation Theory. This training involves a series of visits that can span several weeks and offers a great opportunity for teachers to gain valuable experience using Variation Theory to plan, analyse, and refine lessons.
Manipulatives
Manipulatives are an excellent way to give students a different way of experiencing mathematical concepts. Utilised efficiently they can support conceptual understanding across a range of Key Stages and ability levels.
Challenging students at both extremes
Staff training for how the content can be handled to develop and deepen the thinking skills necessary to stretch the most able students and support the ones that need more scaffolding.
Bridging the covid gap
Developing teachers’ toolkits to support students bridge the gaps caused by the extended time off school during the pandemic.
Supporting pupil premium students
Evaluating the effectiveness of current provisions. Where necessary, identifying and establishing mechanisms to optimise the impact of the additional funding.
Professional development for teaching assistants
How and when to offer support that will be effective for the learner. Using meta-cognitive methods for encouraging deeper thinking.