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follow the Next Steps
and
let us know
how with
to improve
numbers
engaging
SET increased to
over 4000
Working in partnerships to
customise Next Steps in SET
working with Secondary & Primary
Strategies
and ….. EYFS, Teachers’ TV, Bowland
Maths and …….
Highlights of 2008/09
What a difference a day makes
An open door to professional development
Changing practice through practising change
The NCETM near you
Commitment and success
RECME: Researching Effective CPD
in Mathematics Education
provides advice based on evidence about CPD that is
effective in informing teachers’ practice and students’
learning
www.ncetm.org.uk/recme
NCETM funded projects
Some reflections
● Awarded
onwith
basis
ofNCETM
proposals
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mathematics
CPD
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of
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practice,
away
training
development
both atmoving
Primary
and from
Secondary
delivery
development
projects?
levels.
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to reportcreative
on portal
and at NCETM
events
What
a possibility!
with
reporting supported by NCETM
The NCETM has reinforced our determination to
This
really empowered
a group
driveproject
the development
of our own
CPDof
& subject
this
● over
80
awards
to date
leaders
mathematical
reasoning
has
hadto
a develop
really
positive
impact on
our workinas
their
schools.
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an impactSchool
on the
a specialist
Mathematics
and Computing
learners
in their for
classes,
they found
it to
be a
● 15 awarded
2009/10…
more to
come
highly effective vehicle for deep and lasting
professional development
Funded projects
The Teacher Enquiry Bulletins
Funded projects Impact
Changing the culture in
mathematics lessons
Sarah Little
A glimpse at a project
The use of stories to stimulate problem
solving in young children
Sue Rayner
What next ?
more teacher enquiry funded projects
&
Mathematics Knowledge Networks
• Groups of teachers working together
• Starter packs available for each of the 9 themes that the
NCETM has identified as priorities
• Funding available for networks that are willing to report
on their progress and findings through the NCETM
• Applications for funding are open until 22nd June
• Networks will begin to meet during September
Highlights of 2008/09
What a difference a day makes
An open door to professional development
Changing practice through practising change
The NCETM near you
Commitment and success
Around the regions
The more I think about how this has changed me as a
teacher, the more I think that it has to be developed further.
Regional Communities for immediate and
& resources
& regional
In aongoing
recentsharing
observation
of me
a senior colleague said that at
funded in
projects
no stage
the lesson did I tell the students anything,
Before I thought ‘oh oh prepare for a telling off’, she qualified
West "the
Midlands:
On line
communities
it with,
students
had
to develop all their own learning
using video conferencing
through
the questions you asked".
London ‘Hands-on ICT conference
I am not sure that I would have got to that point had Lee not
Yorkshire & Humberside: Inviting Johnny
involved
me in this project 2/3 years ago. I have to say I
Depp into Mathematics
think that this is the best comment that anyone has ever
Business
in the community
paidNorth
me East
about
my teaching.
Cornwall post-16 community
New NCETM structures to add to
our support of schools & colleges
One advanced skills teachers (0.2) to be
placed in each of 9 regions alongside 1.3
Regional Coordinators
● 6 in place by July 1
33 NCETM ambassadors supported by
bursary to school/college managed through
regions will facilitate & take forward our
national projects or extend our networks
e.g. Widening participation
Engaging with new teachers
NCETM works with Higher Education
Institutions (HEIs) across the country to support
their work in initial teacher education & CPD
This has included
production & distribution of
a CD of resources and
CD for ITE
ideas for new teachers,
distributed to all HEIs in
collaboration
with
I will definitely
use
theSubject
NCETM
have taken on
New
updated
set
of CDswebsite,
to beand
distributed
in board
advice given to me ……good to use and will find out more on.
Associations
September
The NCETM Standard
1. A single standard including quality indicators
associated with NCETM’s three ‘strands’ of effective
continuous professional development
2. A workable registration and submission process
3. Achievement of the NCETM Standard for CPD by
many of the providers in the pilot
4. Completion of the NCETM
Standard is likely to ensure
provider simultaneously
meets TDA Code of Practice
Highlights of 2008/09
What a difference a day makes
An open door to professional development
Changing practice through practising change
The NCETM near you
Commitment and success
Commitment:
Working in Partnerships
ACME
Prince’s Teaching
Institute
National Strategies
DCSF
National Science Learning
Centre
DIUS now BiS
Teachers TV
STEM Centre
NuffieldSubject
Foundation
Associations
QCA
Regional Mathematics Centre - East
of England
LSIS
STEMNET
JMC
Bowland
Mathematics
Williams & Rose
reviews
Mathematics in
Education & Undustry
MEI
National Mathematics
CPD Committee
● The NCETM has been charged to set this up to take
forward STEM Action Programme 2
Aims
● To identify national priorities for mathematics CPD
● To receive evidence on regional & local situations
concerning the availability & quality of mathematics
CPD
● To synthesise this information into a national picture to
advise Ministers and the DCSF/DIUS (?) STEM High
Level Strategy Group (HLSG)
Regional Advisory Committees Reporting into the
National Committee