1. 4 – 5 February 2010 Exeter. The South West Influence and Impact Conference.

2. NCETM Working collaboratively to enhance mathematics teaching The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) aims to meet the professional aspirations and needs of all teachers of mathematics and realise the potential of learners through a sustainable national infrastructure for mathematics- specific continuing professional development (CPD).

3. NCETM Working collaboratively to enhance mathematics teaching The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) aims to meet the professional aspirations and needs of all teachers of mathematics and realise the potential of learners through a sustainable national infrastructure for mathematics- specific continuing professional development (CPD).

4. NCETM Working collaboratively to enhance mathematics teaching The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) aims to meet the professional aspirations and needs of all teachers of mathematics and realise the potential of learners through a sustainable national infrastructure for mathematics- specific continuing professional development (CPD).

5. NCETM Working collaboratively to enhance mathematics teaching The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) aims to meet the professional aspirations and needs of all teachers of mathematics and realise the potential of learners through a sustainable national infrastructure for mathematics- specific continuing professional development (CPD).

6. What is CPD? What are the key features of effective CPD?

7. CPD = Professional Learning

8. “If teachers learned to teach by studying books and memorizing techniques, written recommendations might have their intended effects. But everything we have learned indicates that teaching is a cultural activity, and consequently the writing and dissemination of reform documents is an unrealistic way to improve education”. The Teaching Gap

9. Programme – February 5 8.30 – 9.00Networking - The portal corner 9.00 – 9.15Welcome and introduction to the day (Pete Griffin) 9.20 – 10.20Workshop 1Workshop 1 10.20 – 10.50Morning refreshments 10.50 – 11.50Workshop 2Workshop 2 11.55 – 12.15Professionals Working Together: The role and importance of the subject associations (Jennie Golding) 12.15 – 13.15Lunch 13.15 – 14.45“NRICHing the profession” (Jenny Piggott) 14.45 – 15.00Afternoon refreshments 15.00 – 16.00Workshop 3Workshop 3 16.05 – 16.20Closing remarks (Pete Griffin) 16.20Refreshments and conference close

10. Professional Learning Teacher-Centred PD The teacher’s job is to organise and provide the sorts of experiences which enable pupils to construct and develop their own understanding of mathematics, rather than simply communicate the ways in which they themselves understand the subject. (1989 National Curriculum, Non- Statutory Guidance).

11. Professional Learning Teacher-Centred PD I can know-that something is true as a fact. I can know-how to do something. I can know-why those techniques work or why those facts are true. But these “knowings” when taught are hard to move beyond book-knowledge, knowledge-about. The knowing-that can be memorised; the knowing-how can be routine, and the knowing-why a collection of “incantations” and learned phrases. What really matters in our increasingly problem-oriented culture is knowing-to use this or that technique, this or that way of thinking, this or that approach, in a given situation as and when it arises”. (From “Questions and Prompts for Mathematical Thinking”, ATM, 1998).

12. Programme – February 5 8.30 – 9.00Networking - The portal corner 9.00 – 9.15Welcome and introduction to the day (Pete Griffin) 9.20 – 10.20Workshop 1Workshop 1 10.20 – 10.50Morning refreshments 10.50 – 11.50Workshop 2Workshop 2 11.55 – 12.15Professionals Working Together: The role and importance of the subject associations (Jennie Golding) 12.15 – 13.15Lunch 13.15 – 14.45“NRICHing the profession” (Jenny Piggott) 14.45 – 15.00Afternoon refreshments 15.00 – 16.00Workshop 3Workshop 3 16.05 – 16.20Closing remarks (Pete Griffin) 16.20Refreshments and conference close

13. 4 – 5 February 2010 Exeter. The South West Influence and Impact Conference.

14. Our portal resources

17. Three funding schemes: Teacher Enquiry Funded Projects Mathematics Knowledge Networks Regional Projects Programme

18. Extending our reach SW regional coordinator team: Pete, Sue and Richard Chris - Advanced Skills Teachers working one day a week supporting the setting up of teacher networks 28 voluntary Ambassadors taking forward the NCETM’s work in schools and colleges across the country supporting networks of teachers and animating the portal

19. Evaluations Post Cards

20. Please keep in touch: pete.griffin@ncetm.org.uk sue.madgwick@ncetm.org.uk richard.perring@ncetm.org.uk chris.gould@ncetm.org.uk The South West Influence and Impact Conference.