Understand, monitor and evaluate early years mathematics
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Opportunity #12 -Understand, monitor and evaluate early years mathematics
Audience – Early years foundation stage, key stages 1, 2 and 3
Time - 6 x 1 hour
Develop a shared understanding of mathematical practice and provision across all key stages, ensure effective curriculum progression and maximise progress across the subject.
Work and talk together to understand the mathematical curriculum in early years.
Practical tasks, discussion and exploration of provision supports the whole team to learn more about how mathematical understanding and ideas grow and develop over the phase, and how this is best supported through practice and
provision.
Open up conversations around curriculum plans and progression, resourcing, staff knowledge and skills, timetabling, effective assessment, child development and use of the indoor and outdoor teaching environments. These sessions are most effective when senior leaders and practitioners attend collaboratively.
Covering;
- Learning and development requirements in the statutory framework –
education programmes and early learning goals. - What to provide for an effective learning environment and meaningful
resourcing. - Progression in learning and development across the themes of; pattern, set
making, counting /number operations, shape and measures. - Planning and delivery.
- Record keeping and assessment.
- Review of current documentation and curriculum plans in school.