Overview

MEI’s Individual Professional Development (IPD) courses enable self-paced learning, which means that you can continue your professional development at your own pace and at times that suit you.

Places on the course are fully funded by the Department for Education as part of our FE Maths CPD programme. This means that the course is free to teachers within FE settings in England who enrol students under the government’s Condition of Funding Policy.

Teaching GCSE Maths Resit (TGMr) is designed for those teaching GCSE Mathematics resit in a post-16 setting. The course has been developed by experienced GCSE resit teachers and will support you to improve your subject knowledge and learn more about the principles of effective pedagogy in GCSE Mathematics resit teaching.

Aims

• Gain confidence and competence with the subject content of GCSE Mathematics foundation tier.
• Learn more about the principles of effective pedagogy in GCSE maths resit teaching.
• Apply these principles in the classroom with practical strategies and resources.
• Reflect upon creating effective and engaging environments for learning maths in the resit setting.

Who will benefit from attending?

• Experienced GCSE resit teachers looking to enhance their teaching of GCSE resit
• Teachers that are new to teaching GCSE Mathematics and wanting to develop further
• Experienced maths teachers teaching GCSE resit for the first time
• Functional Maths teachers teaching level 2

Content

Via the on-demand modules, you will focus on subject knowledge and pedagogy:

• The course covers all the key ingredients of teaching, learning and assessment needed to teach GCSE Mathematics resit students.
• You will get the chance to explore key aspects of proportional reasoning, contextualisation, problem solving & reasoning, diagnostic teaching, using manipulatives, bar modelling and ratio tables.
• Key pedagogies of how to teach lower attaining students will be investigated by exposing misconceptions and supporting students with any difficulties.
• The subject content covered will be at GCSE foundation tier.

Materials and equipment

Eligibility

To be eligible for this fully funded professional development, you will be a teacher in one of the following post-16 settings in England that enrols students under the Condition of Funding policy:

• Further education colleges
• Sixth form colleges
• Art, design and performing arts colleges
• Specialist designated colleges

Cost

To be eligible for this fully funded professional development, you will be a teacher in a post-16 setting in England that enrols students for maths under the Condition of Funding policy.

FAQs

Our IPD courses have been designed to replicate our flagship Live Online Professional Development (LOPD) courses as closely as possible. However, LOPD courses incorporate group learning and collaboration throughout; this valuable element which cannot be reproduced through IPD.

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Key facts

• Reference:#12240
• Audience:Teachers
• Curriculum focus:Functional Skills and GCSE resit
• Mathematical focus:Problem solving, Use of technology, Curriculum planning, Leadership, Reasoning
• Event format:Online
• Duration:1
• Region:National