Some reflections on maths and teaching for Mastery.
● High expectations should be placed on all pupils regardless of perceived prior attainment.
● Mixed attainment groups are desirable and can offset limiting 'ability grouping'.
● Following a scheme is NOT teaching for Mastery. Teaching for Mastery is an approach, an ethos and a deliberate choice teachers make.
● Teaching should be in small steps, think if teaching for Mastery as teaching until children have mastered it.
● Prioritise retrieval of place value, the four operations, fractions and geometry.
● Ensure children are fluent with number facts and develop number sense to free up cognition to attend to problems.
● Explicitly teach vocabulary - do not leave it to chance.
● Carefully designing questions, with variation, is a great way to deepen and strengthen understanding in lessons.
● I do, you do approaches engineer higher degrees of success through worked examples.
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