Training you to become a maths teacher
We are interested in supporting an effective and resilient teacher to become a maths teacher.
Who are you?
You will already have QTS (this opportunity is not suitable for NQTs). You are likely to be a teacher with some experience in the classroom. Perhaps you are early in your career and looking for a route to further your career. Perhaps you have considerable classroom experience and would relish a new challenge. It is certainly never too late to consider a change. Whatever your background you will be an effective teacher already with a good range of classroom skills and a record of success in supporting students through public examinations.
Why take the risk of re-training?
As a maths teacher your skills will always be in demand and you will be teaching a subject at the heart of every school’s ambitions. If you see your future in the classroom, you will have the pleasure of getting to know a small number of groups really well (maths teachers typically teach six or seven groups, each one for between 6 and 8 hours a fortnight). If you see your future in a promoted post, your skills as a maths teacher will always make you worthy of consideration. One thing is certain – there is no risk to your earning power. We are offering the change to re-train on a full salary.
What would a re-training programme look like?
Our programme is structured along the lines of the graduate teacher programme. You will have:
- A reduced number of classes (teaching about 36 out of 50 periods)
- A structured programme of observation of other maths teachers and the opportunity to see maths teaching in other schools
- Observation and feedback on your own teaching
- Mentoring from a specialist maths teacher
- Participation in external training programmes, including the subject specialism training courses co-ordinated by the DfE
- Support for and funding of any distance learning you want to undertake to improve your qualifications in maths.
What are the timescales?
We would anticipate that within one year you would be ready to teach all ages and abilities from year 7 to year 11. Depending on your background you may be ready to teach A level in the same time scale. Much will depend on your own levels of confidence and your own background in maths.
Want to discuss this further?
We realise this could be a big decision for you. If you would like to talk things through further please feel free to contact:
- Sam Gosling, deputy head ( ) who can give you an overview of the school, and the outline of how our training programme would work.
- Will Speke, assistant head () who can talk you through the kind of training and professional development we support in the school.
- Alison Twyford, head of maths () who can tell you about our maths department, how teaching is organised and our successes so far in maths.