
Get your tickets for the TDaPE Conference OnlineFor show notes, links, and a summary episode, sign up for the Hey! What You Reading For newsletter. Mondays at 7am BST - https://tdape.beehiiv.com/subscribeAI For Teachers newsletterFor maths curriculum questions contact us here or via support@alta-education.com Learn more about The Story of Maths - www.alta-education.com/tsom-overview and www.acel.proWhat if the lessons that look most exciting are not always the lessons where students learn the most?Episode 293: In this episode of Thinking Deeply about Primary Education, I’m joined by Matthew Best, a P7 teacher, maths lead and senior leader, for a conversation about effective teaching, mathematics, curriculum reform and the opportunity created by TransformED.We explore why primary teaching has so often been pulled towards novelty, activity and engagement, and why this can distract from the harder, more important work of securing learning. Matthew makes the case for calm, predictable classrooms, explicit teaching, worked examples, careful questioning and responsive professional judgement.We also discuss workload, differentiation, inspection culture, curriculum design, the problem with proxies for learning, and why teachers need to be freed up to focus on what matters most: helping students know more, remember more and do more.This is a conversation about putting teaching and learning back at the centre of everything we do in schools.
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