Primary Maths: Effective Subject Leadership

Mark Avis
Mathematics specialist teacher

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1h 3m

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This webinar will equip subject leaders for mathematics at primary level with knowledge and skills to inspire and empower their team, to ensure confident and consistent delivery of the primary mathematics curriculum throughout the school, with a firm focus on improving pupil outcomes.
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Webinar Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes (approx.)

This webinar will equip subject leaders for mathematics at primary level with knowledge and skills to inspire and empower their team, to ensure confident and consistent delivery of the primary mathematics curriculum throughout the school, with a firm focus on improving pupil outcomes.

Subject leaders play a key role in curriculum design and delivery, and are used as a source of evidence by Ofsted when evaluating teaching and learning. It’s essential that, in addition to expertise in their particular subject, they develop leadership and management skills, empowering their team to enhance teaching and learning in accordance with national curriculum requirements.

In this webinar, Mark Avis, mathematics specialist who has led on several new, innovative approaches to teaching mathematics, will explain how subject leaders can evaluate their own leadership and management strengths whilst delivering a responsive curriculum which supports individual pupil needs and meets DfE and Ofsted expectations.

Please note that this webinar complements our Certificate in Subject Leadership for Primary Schools course, which establishes the overarching principles of effective subject leadership.

Outcome 1:

Understanding how to develop the role of subject leader taking account of the distinctive features and unique challenges of delivering the primary mathematics curriculum.

Outcome 2:

Being able to evaluate personal leadership and management skills, and effectively address areas for development in mathematics.

Outcome 3:

Appreciating the importance of developing the subject knowledge of the team for confident and consistent teaching in all lessons.

Outcome 4:

Understanding how to assess the quality of teaching, including addressing learning gaps, and manage difficult conversations on performance.

Outcome 5:

Recognising the importance of putting in place primary mathematics resources necessary for effective curriculum delivery and assessment of its impact.

Mark Avis

Mark Avis is a Mathematics Specialist Teacher with over 30 years’ teaching and school leadership experience on top of his Master’s degree in Primary Maths Pedagogy.

He is the Director of Mathematics of the Aspire Multi Academy Trust, Aspirer Teaching School and Aspirer Research School. He has led the introduction of an evidence-informed approach to maths teaching called “small steps to depth” and he has recently led a maths improvement project involving 39 schools across Cheshire. Further to this, Mark has carried out two research projects looking at ways to improve the teaching of times tables.

Mark has previously been a Deputy Headteacher and Headteacher of several primary schools and is currently the Deputy Head of Ash Grove Primary in Macclesfield. He was in post, leading in Mathematics, throughout the school’s journey to Outstanding school in 2013.