Post-16 Professional Development and Resources

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Post-16 Professional Development and Resources

Post-16 Professional Development and Resources

Opportunities for developing teachers and maths departments and resources to support all post-16 maths teaching

To support teachers of post-16 maths, including Core Maths, A level Maths and A level Further Maths, the NCETM and Maths Hubs work in partnership with the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP).

For 2023/24, there are opportunities in three professional learning areas for teachers of Level 3 maths to participate in a project run over a school term or more by their local Maths Hub. Please note that the links below take you to the AMSP website.

In each project, teachers get together with colleagues from other schools or colleges several times over an extended period, in sessions led by a teacher or former teacher experienced in professional development and in the relevant area of maths. These projects are now recruiting, and you can sign up and find out more about live events by following the links above.

Find out more

To discuss which of these three opportunities is right for your maths department in 2023/24, you can contact your local Maths Hub. The Post-16 Lead will know more about venues and dates in your area.

Find your hub

The projects above are co-funded by the AMSP and Maths Hubs. Separately, the AMSP run a comprehensive range of programme of activities for teachers and students in state-funded schools and colleges. Full details are on the AMSP website. The AMSP also have more details of the new funding for Core Maths announced in February 2024.

Cross Phase – Supporting Low Attainers to Achieve a L2 Qualification in Mathematics

In 2023/24, a new project is running for teachers of GCSE Maths, and for those teaching GCSE Maths resit and/or Functional Skills Maths. Participants may be based in secondary schools, UTCs, FE colleges, Sixth Form colleges, schools with post-16 provision, or other post-16 settings. Learn more about this cross-phase project.

Post-16 GCSE and FSQ Mastery Specialists

Working together with Maths Hubs, the NCETM has designed a new professional development opportunity to support for those who teach maths up to Level 2 to post-16 students, and for the departments where they work: Post-16 GCSE and FSQ Mastery Specialists. Participants undergo an initial training year to develop an understanding of teaching for mastery for post-16 GCSE and FSQ students, then support others to do the same in the second year and beyond.

The first cohort of 'trailblazers' began their programme in 2023/24.

Podcasts, features and blog posts

We have published a wide variety of articles designed to answer questions around, and provide support to those teaching, post-16 maths qualifications. If you would like to share your own reflections on teaching maths at post-16, please get in touch.

Core Maths

A level

GCSE Resit/FSQ

Useful resources, papers and documents

Please note that these links take you to external websites.

Phase

Post-16

Secondary Mastery Professional Development

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