Level 3 Opportunities
2023/24 Work Groups
New to Teaching Core Maths Programmes
Summary
This programme supports teachers in developing specialist knowledge for teaching Core Maths and increases their confidence in teaching the course.
Dates
TBC
Developing Core Maths Pedagogy
Summary
In a context-heavy qualification, whilst providing opportunities for students to explore unfamiliar context, how do you quickly identify and correct misconceptions and develop their mathematical understanding?”
In 2023/24, the Core Maths Pedagogy Work Group will address this question as an overarching theme.
- We will be looking good classroom practice to help reveal what students know and address their misconceptions.
- Engaging activities to help find out what your students know, provide overarching context, and help you build on their current understanding.
- Efficient and effective strategies for other assessment self-assessment, auto-assessment, teacher marking and longer feedback.
We will use this overarching theme whilst exploring particular topic themes that are a priority for the participants on the Work Group.
Sessions will include examples of lesson study, co-planning, curriculum design and engagement in research.
This work group is fully-funded by the DfE and is free to join. Participants who join these work groups will expect to be released for the equivalent of 3 days over the academic year to allow time to this activity to be impactful.
Dates
Session 1 – completed
Session 2 – completed
Session 3 – completed
Session 4 – 7th March – 1.30pm to 4.30pm (Parliament Hill School)
Session 5 – 25th March – 4pm to 5pm – online via Zoom
Session 6 – 25th June – 3.30pm to 5pm – online via Zoom
Developing A Level Pedagogy
Summary
In 2023-24 the overarching theme of our Developing A-level Pedagogy Work Group will be developing effective assessment in the A-level classroom:
- Good classroom practice for assessing in the moment and addressing student misconceptions.
- Engaging activities that help reveal what student’s know, and allow you to build on their current understanding.
- Efficient and effective strategies for other assessment including teacher marking, self-assessment, auto-assessment and longer feedback.
This will aim to help A-level assessment be more useful to students with less workload for teachers. Alongside this overarching theme we will be exploring particular topic themes that are a priority for the participants on the Work Group.
Sessions will include examples of lesson study, co-planning, curriculum design and engagement in research.
This work group is fully-funded by the DfE and is free to join. Participants who join these work groups will expect to be released for the equivalent of 3 days over the academic year to allow time to this activity to be impactful.
Dates
Session 1 – completed
Session 2 – completed
Session 3 – 5th February – 3.45pm to 5pm – online via Zoom
Session 4 – 27th June – 1.30pm to 4.30pm (Parliament Hill School)
Improving Transition between KS4 and KS5
Summary
This project focuses on participant teachers working together to analyse and trace through the curriculum to improve the transition between KS4 and KS5, gaining awareness of the themes which run through topics taught in Years 7 -11 and how these will be developed further at A Level, developing an insight into effective teaching approaches, and considering the implications for longer term curriculum design.
If the dates below are not suitable please contact us for an alternative offer.
Dates
Thursday 9 February 3.30 – 5.30pm
Thursday 16 March 3.30 – 5.30pm
Thursday 27 April 3.30 – 5.30pm
Thursday 18 May 3.30 – 5.30pm
Thursday 15 June 3.30 – 5.30pm
Supporting GSCE Resit
Summary
Work Groups will explore ways of teaching key content to GCSE resit students, and of working with teachers of post-16 resit GCSE in the context of Covid recovery.
Participants will collaborate and experiment, deepening their knowledge and understanding of the curriculum demands of, and pedagogical approaches to, GCSE Maths. Participants’ departments will also benefit through shared good practice, making more confident use of approaches such as bar modelling, multiplicative reasoning, realistic contextualisation or teaching for mastery.
This Work Group is run by London South West Maths Hub.
Dates
Wednesday 2 November 9.30am – 3.oopm
Wednesday 22 March 9.30am – 3.00pm
Plus 3 on-line twighlight sessions to be arranged
Developing Core Maths Pedagogy - Online only
Summary
These Work Groups give teachers opportunities, through collaboration and experimentation, to develop improved teaching approaches that support the open-ended problem-solving skills Core Maths students need to develop, and to share these with departmental colleagues.
Dates
First session: 21 November 4.30 – 5.30pm
2022/23 Work Groups
Supporting GSCE Resit
Summary
Work Groups will explore ways of teaching key content to GCSE resit students, and of working with teachers of post-16 resit GCSE in the context of Covid recovery.
Participants will collaborate and experiment, deepening their knowledge and understanding of the curriculum demands of, and pedagogical approaches to, GCSE Maths. Participants’ departments will also benefit through shared good practice, making more confident use of approaches such as bar modelling, multiplicative reasoning, realistic contextualisation or teaching for mastery.
This Work Group is run by London South West Maths Hub.
Dates
Wednesday 2 November 9.30am – 3.oopm
Wednesday 22 March 9.30am – 3.00pm
Plus 3 on-line twighlight sessions to be arranged
Developing Core Maths Pedagogy - Online only
Summary
These Work Groups give teachers opportunities, through collaboration and experimentation, to develop improved teaching approaches that support the open-ended problem-solving skills Core Maths students need to develop, and to share these with departmental colleagues.
Dates
First session: 21 November 4.30 – 5.30pm
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Summary
This Work Group will be both practical and research driven– focusing on curriculum development. This links well to the new Ofsted Framework. It will look at the approaches used in some Pacific Rim countries, combined with the best of what we already do.
Deadline
01/06/2022
Events
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Summary
This Work Group will be both practical and research driven– focusing on curriculum development. This links well to the new Ofsted Framework. It will look at the approaches used in some Pacific Rim countries, combined with the best of what we already do. It will challenge you to re-think your whole school approach and focus on the importance of consistency and progression through key models for conceptual understanding.
Deadline
01/06/2022
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Summary
This Work Group will be both practical and research driven– focusing on curriculum development. This links well to the new Ofsted Framework. It will look at the approaches used in some Pacific Rim countries, combined with the best of what we already do. It will challenge you to re-think your whole school approach and focus on the importance of consistency.
Deadline
01/06/2022
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Summary
This Work Group will be both practical and research driven– focusing on curriculum development. This links well to the new Ofsted Framework. It will look at the approaches used in some Pacific Rim countries, combined with the best of what we already do.
Deadline
01/06/2022
Specialist Knowledge
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Summary
This Work Group will be both practical and research driven– focusing on curriculum development. This links well to the new Ofsted Framework. It will look at the approaches used in some Pacific Rim countries, combined with the best of what we already do. It will challenge you to re-think your whole school approach and focus on the importance of consistency and progression through key models for conceptual understanding.
Deadline
01/06/2022
heading
Summary
This Work Group will be both practical and research driven– focusing on curriculum development. This links well to the new Ofsted Framework. It will look at the approaches used in some Pacific Rim countries, combined with the best of what we already do. It will challenge you to re-think your whole school approach and focus on the importance of consistency.
Deadline
01/06/2022
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Summary
This Work Group will be both practical and research driven– focusing on curriculum development. This links well to the new Ofsted Framework. It will look at the approaches used in some Pacific Rim countries, combined with the best of what we already do.
Deadline
01/06/2022
