Maths Support

The Learner First Maths initiative is an intentional and responsive series of professional learning experiences that are tailored to schools’ needs and wants within their social context. It affords schools the choice of focus, mode, and timing of their support, and is delivered by practitioners who can successfully translate evidence-based practice into the reality of classroom conditions to make great practice common practice.

Support Opportunities

Designing immediate and responsive routines to help teachers identify student strengths and how to move their learning forward
Creating diagnostic snapshots to replace timely one-to-one interviews and written tests
Building teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge to ensure the learning of highly capable and ICP students is enhanced
Understanding, remediating, and preventing common misconceptions and associated negative dispositions of mathematics and numeracy demands in all learning areas
Modelling effective practice of rich tasks that both enable and extend students’ mathematical thinking

Example session formats:

One-to-one mentoring sessions
Whole-school presentations
Diagnosing and moderating student samples
Modelling ways to use effectively use existing resources

Rob Proffitt-White

Maths and Numeracy Director
The Learner First

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Snapshot: Rob empowers people to become confident, creative communicators of mathematics. Rob has been a teacher, lecturer, coach, and State Curriculum advisor. The design and impact of his work has won two QLD School of the Year awards and been published and shared across Australia and New Zealand. Contact Rob for more information on Maths support for your school. Learn more about Rob.

It was wonderful to see hands on examples that can be used over a range of levels and abilities. His energy and enthusiasm made the Instructional Rounds engaging for ākonga and kaiako alike. It has made me want try his Move n Prove to replace the need for so much formal assessment.

TeacherGleniti School | Canterbury- New Zealand

Rob’s enthusiasm and sound curriculum expertise ensure that learners get the best maths program developed for them. Rob works alongside us and demonstrates that the possibilities are endless and anything can be turned into a maths activity. The sharing and designing of resources and his support to look and learn about our own learners is changing the way we approach maths. We are excited to continue our journey with Rob in 2021 and beyond.

Jane RushDeputy Principal | Kaitiriwa Tumuaki Russley School

Watching Rob working with ākonga to demonstrate these routines is invaluable. You learn so much more from this than listening to someone “tell” you. It also enables us to have responses highlighted in the moment and what this means.

TeacherTimaru South School | Canterbury- New Zealand

Rob’s practical evidence-based approach has changed so much of our mathematics program in the last 18 months. Rob has shared amazing resources that challenge and extend our students. The difference in our approach has developed a genuine and collaborative enthusiasm in my staff and students. I am immensely grateful that Rob continues to work remotely alongside our school and staff into 2021 and highly recommend him as a positive change agent for how maths and numeracy is delivered in your school.

Chris ShortPrincipal | Berwick Chase Primary School, Victoria

Rob has been the catalyst for change in building teachers’ capacity to understand the curriculum. He is an outstanding exponent of the teaching and coaching art and, as a result, students’ academic and dispositional outcomes have significantly improved alongside teacher competence in teaching. Schools today still continue his methodology of learning by knowing your students and knowing what to teach.

Mike HobsonPrincipal | Noosaville State School

Maths Outcomes Achieved in Schools

In both State Primary and High Schools we are seeing:

Outstanding NAPLAN relative gains and U2B growth and L2B reduction in project schools
Sustained increases in number of students attaining the curriculum standards
Increased teacher enthusiasm, confidence, and autonomy with teaching and assessing mathematics
Improved consistency with professional judgments and pre/post moderation processes

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