Target Audience
- Subject Leaders
- Aspiring subject leaders
Objectives
- The subject leader is aware of the roles and responsibilities
- Data is used to support departmental improvement
- Scheme of learning demonstrates progression from Year 7 to GCSE
- Assessing pupil progress is built into the scheme of learning
- Pupil targets show a minimum of three levels of progress
- Pupil progress is tracked and intervention provided when needed
- Mathematical talk is part of the department ethos
Expected outcomes
- Increased capacity of the subject leader to lead and support improvements in mathematics.
- The subject leader is able to audit the department and complete a self evaluation
- The subject leader is able to write a department improvement plan
- Previous external results are used to analyse performance and focus areas for development
- The department is able to accurately track pupil progress from Year 7 onwards based on three levels of progress and intervene if a pupil is below target at an earlier stage
- Pupil targets are appropriately challenging
- The need for intervention is identified earlier
- Pupil progress is accurately demonstrated and supported by informed constructive comment feedback from the teacher
- Pupil engagement is improved as work is appropriately challenging for all abilities
Indicative support package timings
- Data analysis and subsequent action plan - 1 day
- Pupil tracking and target setting - 1 day
- Modelling and coaching the development of a Scheme of Learning - 3 days
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