Mid-Kent Teacher Network

Overview

The Mid-Kent Teacher Network is an AMSP-funded project providing a forum for teachers of maths in Mid-Kent schools to meet, collaborate and engage in professional development relevant to their own particular needs and challenges. 

It is a face-to-face teacher network which meets 3 times a year at Highworth Grammar School, Maidstone Road, Ashford, TN24 8UD from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Meetings are a mixture of informal sessions and speaker-led training events. 

All teachers, and prospective teachers, of level 3 mathematics are welcome to attend.

Content

Problem solving is one of the overarching themes of the A level specifications. Students need to be able to analyse a problem, break it down into its constituent parts and select the appropriate mathematics to solve it. This network meeting will introduce teachers to strategies that develop key problem-solving skills in all of their students and will show how the embedding of problem-solving materials contributes towards the ambition and intent of the department's A level curriculum.

The meeting will  start with ideas for developing general mathematical problem-solving skills. It will also consider how including carefully selected MAT and TMUA questions in your lessons will push all of your students to refine their problem solving skills and allow them to attain more highly in their A level examinations. Higher attainment will provide the opportunity for students to apply for universities where an admissions test is required or to a university where a good score in an admissions test can lead to a lower offer. 

This meeting is suitable for any A level maths teachers who wish to integrate problem solving into their AS/A level teaching.