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We’re pleased to announce that we are partnering with education charity Ambition Institute to deliver the new NPQ in Leading Primary Mathematics.
In 12 months, participants will become an expert leader of primary mathematics and learn how to embed high-quality Mastery approaches to maths teaching in your school.
Choose our NPQ in Leading Primary Maths (NPQLPM) and you’ll be joining over 18,000 teachers and school leaders who’ve selected one of the new Ambition Institute NPQs as of April 2023.
The 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.
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.
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.
Our ‘little and often’ approach to delivery means you can engage with our NPQs around your busy timetable, with minimal time needed out of school.
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, on our NPQs there’s no large project at the end. Instead, you’ll sit an ‘open book’ assessment with support via two on-demand webinars and a dedicated, live assessment preparation clinic to help you get the most from your NPQ.
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Delve deeper into the nuts and bolts of what makes an effective primary maths teacher, what good maths teaching looks like, and how you can lead others so they can learn from you.
Learn how to create a positive attitude to maths in your primary school. You’ll learn how to develop systems that help your pupils overcome any maths anxiety and build their resilience to solving maths problems.
As a leader of maths, you’ll learn how to implement and lead an effective maths curriculum. You’ll be able to identify the maths knowledge that pupils need, identify gaps in their understanding and make changes to improve outcomes.
This new NPQ will support you to embed mastery approaches to teaching maths in your school. You’ll also benefit from the design expertise of Ark Curriculum Plus, who have been working with primary schools for over a decade to develop effective approaches to teaching and leadership.
Ongoing professional development helps you to grow and thrive as a primary maths leader. You will follow an evidence-informed framework and gain a professional accreditation at the end of the programme.
This programme is designed to fit around your teaching role and much of the work can be completed in bite-size chunks around your existing work timetable.
You will train alongside other teachers from similar school contexts. You can share your experiences and build a strong support network.
Your maths leaders will learn techniques to improve the teaching of maths across your school. This includes creating an effective school-wide teaching through the careful sequencing of lessons as well as supporting teachers to understand and use evidence informed approached to maths teaching.
The new NPQs are all aligned. So, no matter what career stage your teachers are at, by joining this programme, they will benefit from an evidence-based framework. They will also share a common language with other NPQ participants that they can pass on to colleagues.
Teachers will bring evidence-based teaching and learning into classrooms, meaning high quality teaching and improved pupil outcomes.
Competent and confident teachers who excel in their roles will be more likely to apply for middle or senior positions in your school when they arise.
By allowing teachers to develop and nurture their talents in specialist areas such as maths, you are investing in their future. This will boost their confidence, making them feel supported and less likely to apply for jobs elsewhere.
Your teachers will train alongside peers from other schools with similar contexts, supported by facilitators who fully understand your needs.
This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Primary Maths framework.
On this programme, you will learn how to:
Our NPQLPM is designed so you can engage in live, facilitated sessions alongside modules you can complete at any time.
The first cohort will start in February 2024.
The programme includes facilitator-led sessions with your peer group that focus on decision making. The programme starts with a one-day live conference.
Note: programme content is subject to change*
Our NPQ courses no longer include a large project at the end. Instead, you’ll sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study.
The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months.
During this time:
The Department for Education NPQ scholarship funding is available to all state schools and state funded organisations in England.
For NPQLPM, this includes participants in state-funded primary schools or state-funded all-through schools who are responsible for educating primary-aged pupils.
DfE-funded scholarships are available for this NPQ for all those who meet the following criteria:
If you do not work in an eligible school, the NPQ in Leading Primary Mathematics costs £899 plus VAT.
Organisations now eligible to access scholarships include:
The DfE have introduced a new Targeted Support Fund for small schools, to enable them to support their teachers and leaders to undertake the NPQs.
There is a grant payment of £200 per participant to settings with 1-600 pupils for every teacher or leader they employ who participates on an NPQ.
This per teacher payment increases to £800 where the employing organisation is a primary school with 1-150 pupils.
Applications for our spring NPQLPM cohorts are now open.
Don’t miss out on a fully funded NPQ! Our February 2024 cohorts are currently our last intake to be fully funded by the DfE.
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.
To register your interest in the NPQ in Leading Primary Maths please email NPQ@jths.co.uk.
This course could be suitable if you’re a:
For example, you might be a:
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.
If you are interested in completing an NPQ, but aren’t sure which one, visit our NPQ page.
To apply, you must be leading, or aspiring to lead, literacy in any phase of education. For example, you might be a head of literacy or literacy coordinator at your school or multi-academy trust.
If you are interested in registering for, or completing one of the Ambition Institute’s NPQs, with the John Taylor Teaching School Hub, then please email NPQ@jths.co.uk
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