Primary Numeracy
Coordinators
Leadership & Management
March 2010
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Objectives
Participants will have opportunities to:
 Consider the evolving role of the
coordinator;
 Reflect on strategies to improve practice in
the teaching and learning of mathematics;
and
 Explore a range of activities to support the
infusion of Thinking Skills in mathematics.
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Reflection on Steps from Day 1
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Download and read suggested DE policy
documents/Circulars
Talk to principal/SMT/other coordinators re
school targets
Review current literacy/numeracy action plans
Begin to collate relevant pupil information
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Workshop 1
Reflection
At your table:
 Share the steps you took on your inschool day
 Discuss strengths, areas for
improvement and challenges for the
future
 Record on sheet provided
National Centre for Excellence in the
Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM)
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The Best Piece Of Advice You Have Ever
Been Given
https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/21631
To register with NCETM click on
https://www.ncetm.org.uk/
The characteristics of a successful school
•Child-centred provision
•High quality teaching and learning
•Effective Leadership
•A school connected to its local community
Role of the Coordinator
As curriculum leaders to:
 demonstrate a commitment to providing
professional development opportunities for
staff, particularly teachers, and promote a
readiness to share and learn from best
practice
 monitor and evaluate effectively school
outcomes, policies, practices and
procedures…
Role of the Coordinator
To ensure that teachers:
 use adaptable, flexible teaching strategies
that respond to the diversity within the
classroom;
 are committed and enthusiastic, enjoying a
positive relationship with their pupils and with
other school-based staff and dedicated to
improving learning; and
 reflect on their own work and the outcomes
of individual pupils.
Workshop 2
Roles and Responsibilities
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Discuss the given statements and place
them in the appropriate column of the
recording sheet.
Use the self-evaluation sheet to record
your next steps.
Coffee Time
Please be
back in 30
minutes
In Summary
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Vision
Planning, monitoring and evaluating
Pupil performance data
CPD
Culture of self-evaluation
Communication with all members of the
school community
Focus on Teaching & Learning
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Reflect on strategies to improve practice
in the teaching and learning of
mathematics
Workshop 3
School Scenario
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Read your given scenario
Agree on the following:
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What other information is needed?
What actions would you take?
How will you know that you are making a
difference?
Record on your flipchart
nRICH
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Clowns
 Stage 1
 Challenge level 
 http://nrich.maths.org/5591
Cinema
 Stage 3
 Challenge level  
 http://nrich.maths.org/1864
To register with nRICH click on http://nrich.maths.org
Teachers TV
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Maths for the Terrified - Involving
Parents
http://www.teachers.tv/video/31110
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www.teachers.tv
Lunch
ESAGS
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Teachers use adaptable, flexible teaching
strategies that respond to the diversity within
the classroom;
Teachers are committed and enthusiastic,
enjoying a positive relationship with their
pupils and with other school-based staff and
dedicated to improving learning; and
Teachers reflect on their own work and the
outcomes of individual pupils.
Better Numeracy
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Ethos
Planning
Learning & teaching
ICT
Assessment
Leadership & management
Workshop 4
At your table:
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Consider the given indicators of
effective practice and discuss what
evidence exists to support this
Focus on TS & PC
Explore a range of activities to support
the infusion of Thinking Skills in
mathematics:
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CD
‘Mathematically Possible’
Infusing Thinking Skills and Personal
Capabilities into Numeracy
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Identify and discuss numerical patterns
associated with the H’s on your 100 square
What area (s) of the curriculum might this
activity support?
H on 100 square
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Mathematically Possible
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Play Mathematically
Possible
Variations
 Bonus Points
 Variable Cards
 The Joker
‘Take Aways’
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NCETM
Teachers TV
nRICH
TS & PC Booklet (s) on CD
Mathematically Possible
www.welb-cass.org follow the links to
numeracy
Objectives
Revisited
Participants will have had opportunities to:
 Consider the evolving role of the
coordinator;
 Reflect on strategies to improve practice in
the teaching and learning of mathematics;
and
 Explore a range of activities to support the
infusion of Thinking Skills in mathematics.
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Course
Evaluation
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