Post-16 Work Groups
2025 - 2026 Projects
Developing A Level Pedagogy
Summary
This project explores and deepens participants’ pedagogic content knowledge, empowering teachers to enhance their classroom practice and to influence department-wide A level teaching. It is an engine for improving student understanding of A level Maths, and driving their subsequent success.
Participants will be established teachers or leaders of A level Maths who are looking to deepen their pedagogical understanding and lead the development of pedagogy in A level teaching with other colleagues. They must be teaching a current A level Maths group.
Time Commitment: TBC
Suitable for: Post-16
Cross-Phase – Supporting Students to Achieve a L2 Qualification in Maths
Summary
This is for teachers whose students will study up to Level 2 maths across secondary and post-16. Teachers of Years 10 and 11, and of GCSE Maths resit and/or Functional Skills Maths, will develop ways to support students who need to study maths beyond age 16 to achieve a L2 qualification.
Participants may be based in secondary schools, UTCs, FE colleges, Sixth Form colleges, schools with post-16 provision, or other post-16 settings
Time Commitment: TBC
Suitable for: Secondary and Post-16
This Work Group is in collaboration with another local Maths Hub.
Post - 16 GCSE/FSQ Mastery Specialist Programme
Summary
Practitioners of post-16 GCSE Mathematics resit and/or Functional Skills Maths can become Mastery Specialists, initially developing their own teaching for mastery approaches, then supporting others to do the same.
Participants must have at least two years’ experience teaching post-16 GCSE/FSQ maths, with the capacity to lead change within their own institutions. They may be based in FE colleges, Sixth Form colleges, or other post-16 settings
Time Commitment: TBC
Suitable for: Post-16
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Core Maths Teachers
Summary
The purpose of this programme is to support teachers across London, who are new to teaching Core Maths, in developing specialist knowledge for teaching Core Maths and to increase their confidence in teaching the course. This programme is for teachers in their first 2 years of teaching the qualification.
Time Commitment: TBC
Suitable for: Post-16
This Work Group is in collaboration with another local Maths Hub.
Developing Core Maths Pedagogy
Summary
These Work Groups give teachers opportunities, through collaboration and experimentation, to develop improved teaching approaches that support the open-ended problem-solving skills Core Maths students need to develop, and to share these with departmental colleagues.
Participants should be experienced teachers of Core Maths from schools and colleges in at least their second year of teaching Core Maths. Where appropriate, participants will be expected to work with colleagues in their own department.
Time Commitment: TBC
Suitable for: Post -16
This Work Group is in collaboration with another local Maths Hub.
Regional Cross-Phase – ITT Providers Community
Summary
This project brings together ITT providers and Maths Hub leaders to form a regional professional learning community focused on enhancing maths provision and aligning it with the principles of teaching for mastery.
All DfE-accredited ITT providers can nominate participants, who are responsible for leading maths provision. They will be joined by a representative from each Maths Hub’s leadership team. Participants are expected to attend all online and regional sessions and to share learning with colleagues
Time Commitment: TBC
Suitable for: Primary, Secondary, Post -16