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Teaching Assistants – developing a specialist knowledge in mathematics

What will you learn? 

Enhance your maths specialist knowledge with a particular focus on mathematical structures and representations in each of the following topic areas:  

 

 

  • Addition and subtraction (extending to negative numbers). 

  •  Multiplication and division (extending to negative numbers). 

  •  Fractions – Ratio and proportion. 

Who can take part?

  • teaching assistants who work for most of their time with students in the KS3 maths classroom, or who lead intervention sessions with groups of students.  

  • The participants’ schools should already be engaged with a Teaching for Mastery Work Group, and this programme will complement this provision.  

What is involved? 

  • Participants will attend four days of sessions over one academic year. 

  • Structured conversations will focus on maths, pedagogy, misconceptions, and transferring approaches to classrooms.

  • Between sessions, participants contribute to an online community, complete school-based tasks, and share observations with peers. 

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