Who can take part?

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These Work Groups are for all departments that have previously participated in Mastery Development Work Groups and all Cohort 1-7 Mastery Specialist Departments. The two lead participants continue to be Advocates who have participated in a Development Work Group and key teachers from a Mastery Specialist’s department, but particular Work Group sessions may sometimes be joined by participants' departmental colleagues.

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What is involved?

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Each Work Group will have a focus for the year.
The five foci for 2024/25 are:

Developing Mathematical Thinking

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This Work Group aims to give time to think about Mathematical Thinking with a particular focus on problem solving and a
challenge to think about what progression in problem solving looks like.
Through this work group we’ll explore some tasks, how we focus tasks and some teacher actions that support the tasks so that mathematical thinking and problem solving are supported and embedded in students’ mathematical experiences.

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Developing Oracy strategies

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This Work Group aims to explore the latest Oracy research and discover ways to embed ideas into maths lessons.

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Cross Departmental reach (RIWG)

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This is a Research and Innovation workgroup. The aim is to discuss and explore ideas and strategies to share Teaching for
Mastery beyond advocates and specialists. Key ideas explored will be how to share principles with teachers with limited Teaching for Mastery knowledge involvement.

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New or Returning to Teaching for Mastery

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This Work Group aims to give an overview of the essence of Teaching for Mastery. The sessions will look at the Five Big Ideas, key areas of research and will discuss practical ideas of how to incorporate these ideas into lessons.

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Developing fluency with multiplicative reasoning 

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What will you learn?
Your students will develop a deep, secure and connected understanding of the maths
they are learning
You will continue to develop teaching for mastery approaches consistently across your
department
You and your department will collaborate to create a coherent curriculum in a culture of
professional learning

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What is the cost?

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The Secondary Teaching for Mastery – Sustaining project is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.