Mathematics Leadership Activity Plan

Mathematics Leadership Activity Plan

Here is a plan for mathematics leaders in primary schools to support goal setting for mathematics leadership activity. The designing of this plan is not a linear process.

There are guiding questions for each section to support planning. The sections of the plan are:

  • Success Indicator: This is written as a statement that is concerned with what teachers will do as a result of your leadership activity that influences their knowledge, practices, and/or dispositions for effective mathematics teaching. I tend to encourage maths leaders to write these in the form of “Teachers will…” (For example, “Teachers will use open-ended tasks with enabling and extending prompts and record these in mathematics planning documents”
  • Focus questions: On what, do you direct your leadership work? What do the teachers do because of your leadership influence?
  • Evidence: These are the sources of information that could collect that proves that your leadership activity is influencing your teachers’ knowledge, practices, and/or dispositions for effective mathematics teaching
  • Focus questions: What will be collected by you as evidence of your leadership influence? How do you know teachers are enacting this success indicator?
  • Criteria for evidence: These could be questions that you use to analyse the evidence source, and thus be able to measure the success indicator
  • Focus questions: What questions might you ask to analyse the evidence? What will you look for?
  • Status: This is the situation of the particular time associated with the success indicator. This could be “beginning”, “consolidating”, or “extending’.
  • Focus question: At what stage is this indicator at in terms of the teachers’ practice:Beginning? Consolidating? Extending? 
  • Priority: This is the time of the school year where you will start your leadership activity the success indicator
  • Focus question: When will you start to direct your leadership work on this indicator?
  • Leadership actions: These are the key actions that you will take to make the success indicator a reality in the work of your teachers. These will be what you will specifically do and through what means to influence teacher learning. These leadership actions might include opportunities for professional reading, mathematics planning meetings, staff meetings, etc.
  • Focus questions: What are the important actions that you need to influence the teachers’ work with this indicator? What is the sequence of action that builds on teacher knowledge, practice, and dispositions in relation to this success indicator?
  • Resources: These are the tools, resources, and artefacts that you will need to help you in your leadership activity. Examples of resources might be teacher texts, professional reading texts, concrete materials, etc.
  • Focus question: What resources/tools do you need to facilitate your work with this indicator?

Download the leadership plan below (this is a locked document where the cells in the plan can only be modified):

Mathematics Leadership Activity Plan