In this 12-month programme, you’ll benefit from our evidence-informed curriculum to help you build your knowledge as a leader of mathematics.
The programme uses the latest evidence-based learning and shows you how to put your findings into practice in your school setting. You will learn alongside other teachers from schools with similar challenges and circumstances.
The NEW National Professional Qualification in Leading Primary Mathematics – the NPQLPM
Apply now – starting in February 2024!
Programmes are currently free and funded by the DfE for participants from state funded schools and settings, with additional bursary payments also available for schools with <600 pupils. For those who are not in an English state funded setting, the cost is £899 + VAT
The National Professional Qualifications, the NPQs are the only recognised professional qualifications accredited by the DfE which stay on your teacher record. The Five Counties Teaching School Hubs Alliance and the Boolean Maths Hub are embarking on a unique partnership to jointly deliver the NPQLPM for our Five Counties / Boolean maths hub region on behalf of Ambition Institute, one of the country’s NPQ lead providers.
Our carefully sequenced and evidence informed NPQLPM will help you to develop a positive culture for maths teaching and embed effective approaches to teaching maths across your primary setting. Throughout the programme, you’ll get access to the key research on areas of teaching and school leadership including instruction, curriculum, assessment, culture, professional development and implementation. All of this content will be delivered through a primary and maths specific lens.
The programme has been designed for teachers and leaders who are familiar with mastery approaches to teaching maths. Over 12-months you’ll build on your existing mastery expertise and learn how to embed this across your school whilst developing key aspects of your leadership .
Our ‘little and often’ approach means you can engage with our NPQs around your work schedule, with minimal time needed out of school: there is one launch conference in February 2024 to introduce you to the programme, your fellow participants and to meet your facilitators. There are six 2-hour online facilitated twilight sessions to reinforce your guided self study online, which can be done at a time to suit you.
As part of our growing network, you’ll train alongside fellow teachers with similar responsibilities, with content focusing on the key challenges you face in your role.
Plus, with all of the reformed NPQs there’s no large project at the end. Instead, you’ll complete an 8 day ‘open book’ assessment with support via two asynchronous webinars and a dedicated, live assessment preparation clinic to help you get the most from your NPQ.
This programme follows the DfE’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ) Framework for Leading Primary Maths
On our programme, you will learn how to:
- Understand what good primary maths teaching practice is and how to implement it.
- Embed mastery approaches to teaching maths in your school.
- Lead your school to teach maths effectively, working collaboratively with senior leaders and teachers.
- Develop your ability and capacity to improve the provision of maths across your school.
- Equip staff to plan effective primary maths lessons and stimulate your pupils’ thinking.
- Help colleagues to adapt their maths teaching to meet different needs.
- Align your professional development with wider school improvement priorities.
To apply, you must be a teacher who has, or is aspiring to have, responsibilities for primary leading teaching in mathematics, numeracy, curriculum, teaching and learning, phase or a primary classroom teacher aspiring to lead.
This course could be suitable if you’re a:
- Primary teacher and you’re already familiar with mastery approaches to teaching maths, but you want to improve your leadership skills in this area.
- Subject leader in a primary school which is already engaged in the Teaching for Mastery programme or a similar programme.
- Phase leader in an all-through school with responsibility for educating a primary aged key-stage or primary school
For example, you might be a:
- Local Leader of Mathematics Education (LLME)
- Primary Mathematics Lead
- Primary Curriculum Lead
- Primary Teaching and Learning Lead
- Primary Phase Lead
- Primary classroom teacher aspiring to lead mathematics.
NPQLPM participants are expected to have completed a minimum of 1 Year of the DfE’s Teaching for Mastery programme, delivered by the national network of Maths Hubs and co-ordinated by NCETM, or have secure mastery expertise from another equivalent programme.
Applications close in early January for a February 2024 start.
If you have any questions about the programme, the application process or funding, don’t hesitate to contact us via email at: [email protected]
Please note, we do not run our NPQLPM through our other lead provider, the Education Development Trust (EDT)
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