Are you keen to see improvements in the teaching and learning of Mathematics or Numeracy?

Then we want to welcome you as a member of the national community of teachers of Mathematics currently engaged in the Teaching and Learning Programme.

You can engage with the Teaching and Learning Programme for Mathematics in a variety of ways:

• consider becoming a Subject Learning Coach for Mathematics
• consider becoming an E-Guide
• join a Mathematics network or community
• use the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities created by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM).

You can access all key national and regional improvement and CPD activities through the web portal of NCETM, which has been developed as the natural first point of contact for teachers of Mathematics and Numeracy for all your professional development needs.

The Teaching and Learning Programme for Mathematics can help you with your 30 hours (or pro rata) continuing professional development requirement as well as with achieving your Licensed Practitioner status with the Institute for Learning.

Try out the self-evaluation tools provided on the NCETM web portal.

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The Leading Mathematics in the Learning and Skills Sector resource is for anyone in the learning and skills sector who has a leadership role in mathematics or numeracy, or is interested in having such a role. It will also be invaluable to those who are organising and supporting CPD for colleagues who have an interest in mathematics.

It will help you to explore a range of aspects of leadership in mathematics, it will present some of the challenges that mathematics subject leaders might face, and it will prompt you to reflect on these challenges and explore possible strategies to address them.

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The Mathematical Moments were written to provide you and your colleagues with short professional development sessions. You may want to discuss them with a colleague over coffee or to work with a group of your colleagues.

Each Mathematical Moment has been written to exemplify one of the principles for 'more effective teaching' identified in Mathematics Matters. We believe that many of them exemplify several of the principles and hope that when you read, discuss and use them you will also keep thinking about the eleven principles as listed on page 5 of the Mathematics Matters Executive Summary PDF.

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Thinking Through Mathematics is a professional development package, designed as an online version of the Maths4LIfe resource 'Thinking Through Mathematics'. It will take you through a professional development programme, introducing you to the strategies and approaches that lie at the heart of the Thinking Through Mathematics resource. It has been designed for anyone who teaches courses involving mathematics (including numeracy and Functional Mathematics) from Entry level through to Level 2.

The online version has been produced by the LSIS STEM programme as part of the Teaching and Learning Programme, which supports teachers in developing and sharing effective practice, and in particular, developing personalised, active programmes of continuing professional development. We hope that you will work on these resources with colleagues or with a subject learning coach, and that your work will help you to implement your personal CPD plan.

The CPD builder offers you guidance about how to create and implement a coherent CPD plan. It suggests ways of interacting and using resources, helps you to build a CPD programme that both meets your personal needs and contributes to your professional development plan, and encourages you to take control of your own learning.

The CPD builder, part of a suite of resources at http://tlp.excellencegateway.org.uk/tlp/cpd/index.html, also helps you meet the requirements associated with membership of the Institute for Learning, whose web site (http://www.ifl.ac.uk/) gives full details of the requirements for full-time, fractional and part-time teachers. The Institute for Learning also offers useful guidelines on how to plan and record your CPD; see for example Guidelines for your continuing professional development (CPD), which takes you through a cycle of reflection, planning and impact assessment.

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Improving Learning in Mathematics is a multimedia resource developed for teachers of Mathematics. It builds on existing successful practice and explores approaches that encourage more active ways of learning through the use of group work, discussion and open questioning.

The resource includes many examples of session plans and activities, as well as video footage of learners and teachers working on those activities. It is designed to encourage and support discussion and reflection on good practice in Mathematics teaching.

Improving Learning in Mathematics can be downloaded in electronic format from the QIA archive. Find out more about this important resource and discover a huge range of other CPD resources at the NCETM web portal.

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Could you become a Subject Learning Coach in Mathematics?

Subject Learning Coaches are teachers who have received training in coaching in general and with specific reference to Mathematics. They have a special set of skills to bring to their organisations.

Subject Learning Coaches can be used in a variety of ways: as coaches, as agents of change and as champions of innovative approaches to professional development. This can be within their Mathematics subject area or more widely in their establishments.