Maths Hubs: Shanghai to the Shires, or - What makes great CPD? Northern Lights conference, Carlisle, March 2019
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1. Maths Hubs: Shanghai to the Shires
or: What makes great CPD?
Dr Chris Pyle
Head - Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Chair - North North West Maths Hub
2. What are the
Maths Hubs?
How can I
get
involved?
What can we
learn from
Asia?
What makes
great CPD?
What kind of
teacher do you
want to be?What do you
want from
your career?
What is
teaching for
mastery?
5. About Maths Hubs
The core purpose of Maths Hubs is to help
schools and colleges lead improvement in
mathematics education in England.
They seek to harness all the maths leadership
and expertise within an area, to develop and
spread excellent practice, for the benefit of all
pupils and students.
They are part of the wider development of
school-led leadership in England.
6. About Maths Hubs
The core purpose of Maths Hubs is to help
schools and colleges lead improvement in
mathematics education in England.
They seek to harness all the maths leadership
and expertise within an area, to develop and
spread excellent practice, for the benefit of all
pupils and students.
They are part of the wider development of
school-led leadership in England.
7. North North West Maths Hub
Cumbria and north Lancashire,
including Blackpool opportunity
area
Geographically challenging!
1021 schools
Meaningful engagement* with
1/3rd:
60 secondary schools
230 primary, nursery, special
schools
Budget 贈800k / year
* At least one workgroup with at least 3 days commitment
per year plus gap tasks
10. NOT INSTEAD
Conferences Work group
Going on a course Collaborative
Top down Peer to peer
One-off Sustained
Miles away Local
Broad brush Specific
11. NOT INSTEAD
Conferences Work group
Going on a course Collaborative
Top down Peer to peer
One-off Sustained
Miles away Local
Broad brush Specific
This is what CPD
should look like!
13. Programme for International
Student Assessment
Tests 15 year olds maths,
science and reading
Every three years since
2000
PISA shock!
14. There is no reason why
children in England cannot
achieve the same standards
in Maths as those in Japan,
Singapore and China. Yet
our children are 2 to 3 years
behind by the age of 15. We
must learn from these high-
achieving countries.
18. Features of Shanghai Maths
lessons
Meticulous planning and progression
Precise wording: No question is an accident
Deliberate examples to expose mathematical
structures
Variation of examples: Depth not pace
Variation of representation: e.g. Concrete pictorial
abstract
Focus on the process not the solution
Reasoning: Why? How do you know? Why do you
think that?
Assume that all children will make progress
19. Whats the context?
?
Time for
planning
Parental
support
Mindset
Maths
special-
ists
Lower
contact
time
Larger
classes
23. Teachers told us
that they believed
pupils results were
getting better.
Exchange evaluation
24. [but] at this point
not the big gains that
politicians hoped
would push England
up the international
league tables
25. Maths Hubs strategic priorities
Teaching for mastery: Primary
Teaching for mastery: Secondary, including the challenge
of 9-1 GCSEs
Support schools and colleges in areas of greatest need
Develop new local leaders of Maths education
Develop the mathematical practice of Early Years
practitioners
Raising Level 3 participation & teaching quality: Core to
Further Maths
Support recruitment and development of all teachers of
mathematics
30. Getting involved
NNW Maths Hub Conference
University of Cumbria (Lancaster) 24th June 2019
www.mathshubs.org.uk
www.northnorthwestmathshub.org.uk
NNWcoordinator@queenkatherine.org
@MathsHubs
@NNWMathsHub
Editor's Notes
#6: A maths leadership network
Developing leadership capacity
Growing leaders who will be equipped to train others
Dont work with pupils we work with teachers
#7: A maths leadership network
Developing leadership capacity
Growing leaders who will be equipped to train others
Dont work with pupils we work with teachers
#8: Point out Lancaster and Kendal
Two hours end to end. Breaks the lunchtime rule. Experimented with sub hubs, running events twice.
Not like London some very small hubs with very short travel distances easy to gather people part of the London effect one of the challenges of the regions
About to split
#9: QKS: MAT and teaching school good networks
LRGS: Boys grammar school, girls in the sixth form, also a state boarding school, single academy very strong maths
Scaling up. Thinking: Thats nice. 贈70 million? Could it have been better spent on something else? I am not going to try to answer the opportunity cost question: Yes of course it could be spent on something better. Although actually what could be better than spending on education?
Major motivation for me: Needed a lead school as a headteacher obviously not too busy in the afternoons dont take this personally but I do always seem to find that CEOs and executive heads seem able to make the meetings. More seriously: capacity issue in the school system. We are very stretched!
#12: Sustained with opportunities for progression
Learning responsibility recognition joy
Professional
Say more in a minute about what types of topics the work groups tackle: Year 1: 遜 day per half term for a year; Year 2: embed in school; Year 3: lead workgroup across group of schools
All the best groups look like this: a small group of committed citizens (Margaret Mead) / a cell group / a growth group / a family / a tribe / sometimes a department
#14: Tests are carefully constructed
Comparisons are not straightforward: China carefully enters individual cities into PISA not group of random 15 year olds on a wet Friday afternoon
Shd be a representative sample: 遜 million take the tests OECD = mainly Europe, Americas, Asia
Quote bleak headlines from BBC news article 2013
#15: Liz Truss: Minister for Education under Michael Gove 2012-2014
This was from 2014 speech which launched the Maths Hubs
#16: 6000 miles. Or possibly to Singapore, nearly 4000 miles further south.
#18: https://vimeo.com/202740962
Several hundred teachers sent in both directions
Showcase lessons KS1 KS2
Showcase lessons are a normal part of CPD in Shanghai: Teachers observed at least 20 times per year, and sometimes by up to 100 teachers described lecture theatre with balcony! Then deconstructed, picked apart, taught it again to another group.
Thousands of esp primary teachers have seen those showcase lessons
Key phrase: Mastery which I will talk about a little bit more in a minute: Fluent knowledge deep understanding
#19: Teacher said: 80% of the class is easy for almost all the children.
Almost all the children can do the homework. It should be easy. If they want difficult work, parents try to find it for themselves.
Why? 10 times per lesson
#20: Time most precious resource in the system. 80 minutes contact time per day. Classes of 45.
Confucian learning mindset: emphasises effort over ability. Growth mindset.
Confucius born 551BC: Sayings v deeply embedded: Constant dripping of water wears away the stone or The man who moves a huge mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
#23: Not trying to teach like Shanghai: It is informed by international practice, but it is not copying it
It is about mastery not Shanghai maths or Singapore Maths
You cant import a teaching approach or cultur
#24: But he is very positive about teaching for mastery
#26: Mastery is not the only thread.
Identify leaders: It is a leadership model.
Workgroups not courses: Teaching as a profession again. Attract density of university leavers into teaching. High trust high challenge opportunities for growth.
** Look up Helens examples of 3 year progression and quote them.
#28: Michael Tidd TES January 2019 some good quotes
Could the money have been better spent? Gimmick and the opportunity cost. We prove that wrong because we know the value of professional dialogue and connections.
#29: Virgil van Djik: Most expensive defender in the world: Liverpool bought him for 贈70 million. And according to my 12 year old son he is useless. So on the upside, it could have been worse spent.
#31: Fabulous professional development
For me, really inspiring to see teachers giving up time for their professional development within and beyond their schools
Pipeline of possibilities
- What is the most powerful CPD you have done?
- What is the most ineffective CPD you have done?