Teaching and Learning
Build Your Confidence as a Maths Teacher
Go into maths lessons feeling ready, with misconceptions planned for, resources you've tried yourself and a plan for when it goes wrong.
- 40 minutes
- 7 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Talk about maths in a way that helps anxious children feel safe to try
- Use the objectives before and after your year group to pitch a lesson
- Plan for likely misconceptions, with concrete and pictorial support ready
- Adapt resources so they fit where your lesson is heading, not the other way round
- Spot early when learning isn't secure, then stop and reframe the lesson
About this course
Plenty of primary teachers still carry a bit of dread about maths from their own school days, and children pick up on it fast. A lesson that drifts off course, or a question you can't answer on the spot, can knock you for weeks.
Most of that confidence comes from preparation. You'll check what your class covered the year before and what comes next, so you can break an objective into small steps, and try a lesson's questions yourself before the children see them. If you've planned for the four or five ways a child might get stuck, you've got a picture, a concrete resource or a different question ready when they do.
There's help for the lesson that goes wrong too: how to spot it early, when to stop and start again, and how to make small changes you can build on.
- For early career teachers, teachers and teaching assistants. Primary.
7 modules
Open in order
- 3 min
Introduction
- 5 min
Wrap up
- 7 min
The culture you create
- 6 min
Subject knowledge
- 8 min
Lesson planning
- 7 min
Resourcing
- 9 min
When things go wrong