Top Tier Teaching: Strategies for achieving top grades in GCSE Maths
Suitable for: Heads of Department, Subject Leaders, Teachers, ECTs, LTA
| Course code | Keystages | Presented by |
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| NUM238 | KS4 |
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Course Aims:
- To analyse the demands of grade 7–9 questions and the common pitfalls that limit high attainment
- To deepen understanding of the higher-tier topics that most frequently differentiate top grades
- To strengthen teaching approaches that develop reasoning, precision and problem-solving
- To enhance the use of modelling, worked examples and technology to support complex understanding
- To embed oracy and structured dialogue to improve pupils’ ability to justify and communicate mathematical reasoning
Recent feedback:
"Good discussions and lots of useful things to action and take away.”
“I’ll be sharing the strategies with staff and adapting our scheme of work.”