Mathematics Leadership Steve Lomax Gloucestershire Local Authority This

Mathematics Leadership Steve Lomax Gloucestershire Local Authority This workshop explores how you can lead your department to improvement through CPD and how the NCETM can support this.

National Support for CPD

What are we aiming to achieve? What are the vision and aims for the students we teach? What are we ‘working on’ as a team? What am I currently researching in my own classroom?

The NCETM aims to support and encourage mathematics-specific continuing professional development, for all teachers of mathematics across all phases Department Workshops Excellence in Mathematics Leadership (Ei. ML)

How do you identify priorities? • • Self-evaluation Data driven Outcomes of Department Reviews Student/staff voice

Excellence in Mathematics Leadership (Ei. ML)

What’s your top priority?

Graham Mc. Phail – Cramlington Learning Village

Documentation Student Behaviour Department Budget Departmental Handbook & SOW Disruption, rewards and sanctions? Financial focus: maintenance or development? Observations & Performance Management Teaching & Learning Assessment & Reporting Resources and lesson plans Are teachers, parents & pupils able to track progress? Classroom Environment Intervention & Tracking Whole School Vision Arrangement of tables and access to ICT? Use data to plan targeted interventions and evaluate impact Does the department’s vision of teaching and learning fit with the whole school vision? CPD & staff development

Work out how much you spend annually on resources. Know how much is left over. Plan for development over a period of years. If it is expensive write a curriculum bid. Explore other income sources e. g. NCETM, Royal Society, Business Set up a lesson report. Interview all students who are underachieving – find out why. Create an automated detention system on a specific night Promote rewards and their use. Visit classrooms – give feedback Qn What goes in a handbook? Things you need to tell your staff Information for parents Exam analysis and action plans What about the SOW? Use lesson plans to drive change in the department. Prepare lessons without text books. Create a departmental data base to collect assessment results. Adopt a teaching and learning model for example the accelerated learning cycle. Share with staff the features of an outstanding lesson. Track progress against sub levels or target grades. Inform parents if a pupil under achieves, find out why, discuss options. What is the whole schools vision. If it is not clear to you, refer to the school development plan and follow this up with meetings with your Line Manager. If there is no common lesson plan or observation sheets find out why. Use departmental time to explain the model and its purpose. Write a unit of work using the model take feedback and improve on it. Share how intervention can work in the classroom Timetable intervention for maths staff to withdraw or support pupils Select pupils for SECURE Employ a maths coach Inform tutors and use mentors Plan for a ‘Starbucks Experience’ Agree a focus for an observation eg differentiation, plenary, engagement Set performance targets that will promote change in the department Ask yourself: What do I want the curriculum to deliver? Make a plan of what you would like the department to look like. Design accommodation to meet the needs of the curriculum. Submit the plan to the head teacher.