Margi Leech, along with a great team throughout NZ, has been accredited by Oxford University Press to deliver Numicon Professional Development in New Zealand. 

Leaders that are focused on promoting and taking part with teachers in formal or informal professional learning can have a large impact on students’ learning (ES = 0.84) (Robinson et al., 2008). Effective professional learning needs to include both upfront training and follow-on coaching, so that it results in changes in teachers’ practice (Albers et al., 2017). 

This professional learning needs to be strongly tied to the overall vision of the school and clearly detailed within an implementation plan based on the current area of focus within the school (Sharples et al., 2019). It’s important that the professional learning is targeted to the uptake of more effective strategies in areas that we know make a difference to students – such as meta-cognition, feedback and within-class grouping/differentiation (Education Endowment Foundation, 2020).

Comments:

Katie Saunoa,

Specialist Teacher, Sunnydene School Outreach Service- Thank you Margi. It was one of the most rewarding and worthwhile workshops I have attended. It has really shifted my thinking and approach towards teaching maths. 

Jo

Intermediate school teacher: I most enjoyed learning the many ways of using the equipment, of teaching concepts. There were different angles in this approach for me. I loved the materials.  It is mind boggling with all the possibilities and seeing the different things that would work for my students, all at different levels. I loved exploring the approach of working from prior knowledge; the spiral approach takes away the maths anxiety

Stephanie

Numicon is just brilliant - highly recommend any one going to this course to get an understanding of the philosophy of it, how it is different but it really works. Wish more schools used it with their struggling learners as it really helps our kids see number, and see that they can have success!. Easy to follow programme - you just have to forget they way you learned maths and follow the sequence in the programme! My son loves it! 

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If you would like to host a course at your school, these are your options.

Course outline

Planning Document 

On line meeting for a consultation or training for one hour 

Questions to consider when planning the PD:

OVERVIEW of Professional development options

An introduction to Numicon's theory, pedagogy and practice for new Numicon users