Secondary
SKTM SECONDARY EARLY CAREER TEACHERS
Develop mathematical subject knowledge and pedagogy
This one-year programme supports secondary ECTs to develop their specialist knowledge for teaching maths, underpinned by the principles of teaching for mastery.
Participants attend the equivalent of four days of professional development across the year. They also complete school-based tasks, contribute to an online community, and reflect with peers and mentors.
All ECTs participating in this programme will be enrolled onto the ECT Expertise in Teaching Maths Modules. These interactive modules are hosted on a learning management system. Whilst ECTs do not need to complete the modules to participate in this programme, the learning from them is explored in greater depth within the sessions.
What are the benefits?
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You will strengthen your understanding of effective maths pedagogy
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You will improve your lesson design and questioning
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You will build confidence in adapting your teaching to meet the needs of your students
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You will develop knowledge that aligns with teaching for mastery and the ITTECF
Who can take part?
Participants will be those identified as having recently started their teaching career; for this programme that means teachers in their second or third year of teaching.
What is the cost?
The SKTM – Secondary Early Career Teacher programme is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to state-funded participating schools.
Quotes from previous participants:
“Participation in this group has helped me become more thoughtful and skilled in lesson planning.”
“My planning and task creating skills have improved.”
“Enjoyed discussing resources - this isn't something that we were able to do much of during our PGCE and teaching”
“Group discussions, strategies shared by other teachers and pedagogy.”
“I found the sessions very interesting and enlightening, and I think multiplicative reasoning should be applied and taught more in secondary classrooms.”
“Really enjoyed it, gave me a lot of food for thought and I have been thinking about multiplicative reasoning a lot in my lessons.”
“I find the discussions with other maths teachers about mastery extremely helpful and like to implement them into my practice.”
“I feel that I am much more confident with introducing mastery in my lessons and to give advice on how to use mastery with other colleagues”
Register your interest for 2026/27 by completing the online Expression of Interest form