Now recruiting for 2026/27
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SKTM: Secondary Early Career Teachers
This one-year programme supports early career secondary teachers to develop their specialist knowledge for teaching maths, underpinned by the principles of teaching for mastery.
Date & Location
Now recruiting for 2026/27
Dates and Location TBC
About the Event
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This programme supports secondary Early Career Teachers to develop specialist knowledge for teaching maths, complementing teaching for mastery approaches as exemplified in the NCETM’s Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery. 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 are the intended outcomes?
Student outcomes
Students will:
engage with confidence when faced with appropriately challenging content within a task
reason with increasing confidence in response to effective questioning within the classroom.
Practice development
Participants will:
observe closely their students’ engagement with the task or lesson, considering the implications on their practice of what they notice
recognise that by anticipating student responses, effective questioning can take place within their classroom
consider task and lesson design, with their students’ needs in mind, adapting where necessary
engage constructively with colleagues and mentors, sharing with them the professional learning taking place within this programme.
Professional learning
Participants will:
recognise appropriately challenging content within a task or lesson and anticipate a student’s response, adapting the task or lesson as necessary
notice aspects of students’ learning behaviour, and be supported to plan a response
notice aspects of teaching for mastery within a given task or lesson and be able to articulate their purpose
develop their expertise in maths-specific pedagogies aligned to teaching for mastery and the ITTECF.
All ECTs participating in this programme will be enrolled onto the ECT Expertise in Teaching Maths Modules. ECTs can complete these at their own pace and at a time best suited to their schedule. Whilst ECTs do not need to complete the Modules to participate in this programme, the learning from them is explored in greater depth.
ECTs in year 1 of their training can also join our ECT Expertise in Teaching Maths Modules as a standalone option. Please visit our ECT Expertise in Teaching Maths Modules Page for more details.
PARTICIPANT INFORMATION
Participants will attend the equivalent of four days over one academic year, where they will collaboratively work on maths tasks, facilitated by Cohort Leads.
There is opportunity for structured conversations to unpick the maths, the pedagogy modelled within sessions, misconceptions that pupils have, and how the approaches can be transferred to the participants’ classrooms.
Between sessions, participants contribute to their online community, complete school-based tasks, and share their reflections through discussions with peers (including their mentor).
This is a free to attend Maths Hub programme, funded by the DfE