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This Work Group is designed to support the professional development of teachers with the explicit teaching of the Problem Solving and Reasoning aims of the Maths curriculum.It is designed to support school improvement with a KS1 and a KS2 teacher from each participating school working collabatively with each other and with teachers from other schools.

Please note that we will only accept bookings where we have two teachers from the same school - one teacher currently teaching a KS1 class, and the other teacher currently teaching a KS2 class.

Who will be leading the group?

Vicky CartwrIght and Yvonne Thorpe

Vicky and Yvonne are NCETM Accredited PD Leads. They both have extensive experience in providing support to schools in Telford in their roles as Maths SLEs.

Who is it for?

This Work Group is designed to support the professional development of teachers with the explicit teaching of the Problem Solving and Reasoning aims of the Maths curriculum. We expect that participants will not be Maths Leads in their school, unless the Maths Lead is inexperienced and has not participated in any previous professional development work related to Problem Solving and Reasoning.

Please note that we will only accept bookings where we have two teachers from the same school - one teacher currently teaching a KS1 class, and the other teacher currently teaching a KS2 class. Please list both teachers on the same booking, stating year group taught for both.

What are the intended outcomes?

Professional Learning

• Teachers will gain greater confidence with Problem Solving and Reasoning curriculum aims through PD about explicit teaching of problem solving and reasoning.
• Teachers will gain understanding about representations used to solve problems and how these support the development of conceptual understanding and mathematical reasoning.
• Teachers involved in the Work Group will share and disseminate good practice within their own schools.

Developing Teaching

• Shared approaches to leading Problem Solving and Reasoning tasks.
• Participation in Lesson Study as a model for CPD.

Whole School Development

• Improved consistency to support development of resilience and independence.
• Improved consistency to use multiple solutions or approaches to solving problems effectively in lessons.
• Including tasks with anticipated multiple approaches or multiple solutions highlighted in schemes of learning.
• Shared policies relating to Problem Solving and Reasoning.

Pupil Achievement, Attitudes, Participation or Experience

• Improved resilience and independence to tackle problem solving and reasoning questions.
• Improved confidence and engagement in mathematics, including through teachers valuing alternative approaches and solutions.
• Improved enjoyment through greater awareness of connections.

What will it involve?

Participation in three one-day workshops and completion of gap tasks between workshops.

Workshop 1:  Problem Solving

• Developing Resilience and Independence
• Low threshold, high ceiling tasks
• Tasks with anticipated multiple solutions or multiple approaches
• Different types of Problem Solving

Workshop 2:  Reasoning

• Collaborative review of Gap Task activity
• NCETM PD materials to develop connections to support reasoning with Fractions and Measurement
• Different Types of Reasoning
• Progression in Reasoning
• Representations to support conceptual understanding and mathematical reasoning

Workshop 3:  Further development of Problem Solving and Reasoning

• Collaborative review of Gap Task activity, with Maths Leads from participating schools invited
• Focus on whole school policies and strategies being developed
• Further development of Problem Solving & Reasoning approaches, as identified from Days 1 and 2
• Review of pupil achievement, attitudes and participation
• Evaluation of Work Group

What is the cost?

Free

Cover costs of up to £200 per day will be paid for one of the two teachers if either or both participating teachers are in their first two years of teaching. Please indicate where requested on the booking form.