Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme
Become a Mastery Specialist in the secondary phase
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Applications for this programme should be submitted by midnight on 28th April 2025
Want to become a specialist in teaching for mastery and support your own and other schools to develop teaching for mastery approaches? Join the Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme. During the programme you will receive fully funded professional development from experts, have time to develop your own expertise, and then to support others.
Any teacher (excluding ECTs) who is teaching maths in a state-funded secondary school in England and who wishes to develop both their own classroom practice and their skills in leading professional development with others can apply to become a Secondary Mastery Specialist.
Learn what's involved in the application process by downloading this information document.
What do the programmes involve?
The Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme enables secondary maths teachers to become experts in teaching for mastery, so they in turn can develop maths departments that are well-led, high-performing, and provide high-quality professional development through collaborative working.
Following a two year development programme, participants in their first year will develop their knowledge, understanding and skills of teaching for mastery. Leading to year two, whereby participants will continue to develop their own classroom practices, but with significant emphasis on all members of their department. Alongside this, developing and implementing department-wide approaches, structures and systems which support teaching for mastery.
Future years, the Mastery Specialist and a school colleague will join a Teaching for Mastery Work Group, in order to continue to develop aspects of teaching for mastery across the department.
All the time, you keep in touch with other specialists across the country in online groups. You can share experiences and continue developmental conversations.
To support you in developing your role as a leader of professional development you will be enrolled in the NCETM’s PD Lead Programme during the second year of the Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme.
What is the cost?
The Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.How can you find out more?
Hear from Mastery Specialists in our videos below. Find out more about mastery in our case studies. And take a look at the Mastery Specialist Programme in more detail in this diagram.
This video was produced in 2018/19. It describes the programme in more detail and lets you hear from teachers in some of the schools involved.
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Deadline
Applications for this programme should be submitted by midnight on 28th April 2025
This will take you directly to Axis website via the NCETM - you need to log into your account