Offers practical guidance and advice on how to approach maths leadership and explores the challenges and rewards that come with this unique position. Leading maths at any school is a unique challenge. Being a “core” subject comes with pressures not experienced in many other subject areas. In addition, the relatively abstract nature of the subject content, combined with the contrasting societal and parental attitudes to mathematics, can complicate communication and stifle progress. Most pupils and parents will recognise the importance of the subject but many feel it’s fine to “not be good at maths”. Leading a subject area in schools is often about managing what seem at face value to be contradictions, and nowhere is this truer than in leading maths. Offering practical advice and guidance, Leading Maths explores how maths leaders can make the most of their role and shows them how to manage the daily pressures and demands that come with it. Backed up by specific examples from fifteen years of experience leading maths, Peter Mattock goes on to examine the more long-term, strategic view of maths leadership, including how leaders can work with their teams to develop high quality mathematics teaching and learning for all pupils. The book also covers day-to-day issues that arise when leading maths, in particular results and accountability, as well as difficult situations more generally. Finally, it explores how to manage an inspection, developing improvement plans and the appraisal process, before touching on taking maths leadership beyond one specific school and into system leadership. Leading Maths also contains contributions from experienced maths leaders who examine specific approaches to leading maths across phases and in different settings, including multi-academy trusts. The contributions also discuss how to adapt and manage change across the curriculum, as well as staff CPD. Features and benefits: * Provides a fresh perspective on maths leadership with specific advice and guidance on how to approach a leadership position. * Written by a highly knowledgeable maths teacher and leader with over fifteen years’ experience, alongside contributions from others totalling nearly a century of combined knowledge. * Provides practical strategies for maths teachers at any level of their teaching career, backed up by specific examples from the author and contributors’ own experiences in maths leadership. * Offers useful takeaways at the end of each chapter, with a summary of key points and advice from the chapter.
