In our role as research and innovation workgroup leads for our local Maths Hub, we design professional development for primary maths leads. Our key focus is on supporting disadvantaged pupils through teaching mathematics for mastery.
Here, we share our reflections around how we have used the EEF’s recommendations to design high quality professional development.
During the early stages of our workgroup, we wanted to prioritise the mechanism of ‘setting and agreeing on goals’ to help motivate participants to engage in the programme. It was particularly valuable to work with each participant to create a research question which would anchor all their goals relating to pupil outcomes, professional learning, practice development and whole school impact.
