Professional Development Courses
We offer professional development courses that provide highly effective, easy-to-implement strategies to boost the performance of your students. These sessions are conducted online, from 7-8:30am (depending on length) for the time zone GMT +10. Please contact us if you would like to attend a session.
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PD sessions can be arranged (tailored time/topic) if you are interested in a PD session for your math faculty or for alternate time zones.
Our current professional development sessions are listed below:
Providing Meaningful Feedback
Dates: 29th Feb 2024 (7-8:30am). Online delivery.
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Suitable for all maths teachers looking to give high quality, student specific feedback on exams.
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Video overviewing PD will be uploaded before 19th Jan.
Developing Mathematical Fluency in the Classroom
Dates: 27th Feb 2024 (7:30-8:30am). Online delivery.
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Suitable for all maths teachers looking to target improvement in student's mathematical fluency.
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This PD focuses on the teaching of procedural fluency. Specifically:
1. Why it is important (in many cases) to teach procedural fluency separately to conceptual understanding for a given topic.
2. How to teach specifically for mathematical fluency
3. Motivating students who already understand (but are not fluent with) a topic
4. Classroom resources to use for developing procedural fluency
The 15 Minute Lesson
Dates: 5th March 2024 (7:30-8:30am). Online delivery.
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Suitable for early career mathematics teachers.
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This PD overviews how to make simple, effective, and repeatable math lesson plans. We look at the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) needed to nail the first 15 minutes of a lesson and ways that they can be achieved. We also look at how we can extend this planning as a template for the remainder of the lesson. Specific discussion points include:
1. Bringing students into the classroom
2. Keeping students on task
3. Differentiation
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Classroom resources that align with the above points are also provided.
Topic Masterclass
1 hour session, online delivery.
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Suitable for colleagues in a department looking to take a deep dive into the teaching of particular topics (minimum of 2 participants per session).
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This PD provides a structural breakdown of any topic from the "Master Class" series. Overviewing the sequencing of topics, what the "key pieces of understanding" students need to know to progress in the topic / other topics. Discussions around pedagogical approaches to teaching specific components of the topic.