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An all-encompassing guide to mastering teaching maths in secondary schools, Succeeding as a Maths Teacher is a unique manual that gives advice and guidance for maths teachers at all stages of their career. This handbook not only offers foundational advice on how to deliver the most effective maths lessons, but also delves deeper into key ideas for more experienced teachers, such as how the science of learning applies to mathematics and nuances in instructional design. Written by lead practitioners in maths at Ormiston Academies Trust, with a combined teaching experience of over 60 years, Succeeding as a Maths Teacher takes you from your first days in the classroom through to leading a department. Along the way, the authors explore the purpose of a maths education, topics such as modelling and questioning, how to develop a high-quality maths curriculum and the importance of planning learning over lessons, adapting your teaching in light of feedback, reasoning and solving problems, and enriching pupils’ experiences of learning maths. The Succeeding As… series offers practical, no-nonsense guidance to help you excel in a specific role in a secondary school. Including everything you need to be successful in your teaching career, the books are ideal for those just starting out as well as more experienced practitioners looking to develop their skill sets.

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Part of the Oxford Smart Curriculum Service, Oxford Smart Mosaic is a responsive curriculum for KS3. The Student Book supports practice, fluency and connections, enabling Year 7 students to develop secure understanding first time. The Oxford Smart Curriculum for Maths develops knowledge, skills and understanding in line with the DfE Mathematics guidance for KS3 so that learning is well-sequenced and connected, building on what has been learned at KS2 and preparing learners for the transition to KS4. Designed around Series Editor Craig Barton's Learning Episode Model, the Student Book contains guidance through example-problem pairs and plenty of practice questions in a variety of different exercises. These have been carefully constructed to provide faded scaffolding and stepped challenge, to promote depth of learning and support every learner in achieving success and making excellent progress. From integrated diagnostics to help all students access the curriculum, to depth, challenge and opportunities for working mathematically built into every topic. All students are supported to make the best possible progress, whatever their prior attainment.

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Part of the Oxford Smart Curriculum Service, the Oxford Smart Mosaic Teacher Handbook 1 supports specialists and non-specialists alike to deliver the KS3 curriculum coherently and with impact. Designed around Series Editor Craig Barton's Learning Episode Model, the Teacher Handbook provides a responsive, step-by-step approach that can be easily followed and implemented, with minimal PD. Non-specialists are fully supported with a clear and consistent teaching and learning approach, which helps them to check prior learning, identify misconceptions, model key skills and provide opportunities for practice. The Teacher Handbook contains comprehensive guidance on the delivery of all the content in Student Book 1. It includes additional guidance on pre-requisite knowledge and common misconceptions to support responsive teaching, guidance for effective explanations and how to develop learners mathematical thinking through example-problem pairs, and support with building the confidence and fluency of learners. Answers for all questions and commentary for the problem-solving and reasoning questions are provided in the Teacher Handbook.

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