This project is designed to support non-specialist teachers teaching maths in a secondary school in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support students in maths in the classroom. It replaces the earlier TSST programme.
If you are a headteacher or senior leader, and want to know more about the programme and its suitability for teachers in your school, watch this video.
Who can take part?
This programme is provided for non-specialist teachers of maths in state funded schools who fit the following definition: A non-specialist teacher of mathematics is a teacher who is currently teaching some mathematics or has commitment from a headteacher/executive head to teach some mathematics within the next year, who has not undertaken initial teacher training (ITT) in mathematics.
What are the benefits?
- Your students will think, reason and discuss their maths in order to to deepen their understanding
- You will explore and increase your range of pedagogic approaches aligned to the principles of teaching for mastery
- You will develop your subject knowledge and confidence to teach secondary maths
What will you learn?
Particpants will:
- explore and increase their use of a range of pedagogic approaches consistent with teaching for mastery
- increase their confidence in planning for progression in maths
- improve their subject and curriculum knowledge of secondary maths with a particular emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas.
What do particpants think?
- “This programme has deepened my understanding of the representations and given me new strategies that I can use with my students in the classroom” – Emily
- “It is helping me reflect as a teacher. I don’t have a maths degree and although I can do the maths myself, it is all different from how I was taught before. My department has done a lot of work on teaching for mastery and this is helping me make sense of the work the faculty are doing” – Sam
- “This is my first year teaching maths, and I hadn’t heard of teaching for mastery before – this programme gives you so many different ways of thinking and approaching problems” – Jessica
- “It’s helping me build confidence, in particular with using correct vocabulary and learning different ways of delivering certain topics” – Carl
What is the cost?
The SKTM – Secondary Non-specialists programme is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.
Register your interest for the 2026/27 intake, and we will be in touch in due course with further information about the application process, key dates, and next steps.
14/12/26
18/01/27
22/02/27
12/04/27
07/06/27
28/06/27
All sessions will be 9:45-15:30
Monkhouse Primary School
Wallington Avenue
NE30 3SH