This year I have a new post. I am a Maths Development Officer based in my school. My remit includes but is not limited to developing our new BGE course with the hopes that it seamlessly feeds into senior phase; researching, observing and sharing best practice in maths teaching; developing relationships with parents to help support pupils in maths; diagnostic assessment and intervention teaching with S1 pupils and analysing data to measure impact. As well as those duties I am also teaching two S1 classes who are in mixed ability sets.
I have been working my way through the S1 year group performing diagnostic assessments and they have shown in video what the department and I knew was going on for some of these pupils. Where I am really struggling is how do we ensure in a mixed ability class, where whole class teaching is the method of delivery, that we accommodate the needs of pupils who are in Early level right up to those pupils who are very secure at level 2 and ready for the challenge of level 3 (if they haven't already accessed parts of level 3)? I'm not sure if I'm writing this post as a rhetorical and next year I'll be able to write a post and talk about the progress we made or if I'm looking for someone to give me the answer. We do have intervention lessons in place for these pupils, so I guess the next thing I'm struggling with is how to make the best of these intervention sessions so that they have impact? I'm not naive enough to believe intervention lessons can make up for being 3+ years behind where they should be but I need them to close that gap.
If anyone can help me, either by offering a school visit or general advice I'd love to hear from you. I will set myself a reminder for in a years time to revisit this post and update on our progress.
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