Education Endowment Foundation:Leader insights: Disciplinary Literacy in maths

Leader insights: Disciplinary Literacy in maths

Author
Chloe Butlin
Chloe Butlin
Content and Engagement Specialist (Literacy)

In the third in a series of Voices from the Classroom from Tudor Grange Research School, we gain teacher and leader reflections on specific aspects of how reading may differ in subjects across the curriculum, with professional development and implementation insights woven through.

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How do we read in maths?

Antony Rogers, Teacher of Mathematics, Tudor Grange Academy

Working collaboratively

Elizabeth Bridgett, Trust Lead Teacher of Mathematics, Tudor Grange Academies Trust

Antony Rogers, Teacher of Mathematics, Tudor Grange Academy

Protecting time for curriculum discussion is an integral part of implementation planning for disciplinary literacy. Senior leaders and curriculum leads can use this template, in conjunction with the disciplinary literacy tree’ resource on the EEF website, to discuss the often unique and specialised ways that experts read in their subject area.

Find out more about disciplinary literacy – an approach to improving literacy across the curriculum that emphasises the importance of subject specific support – in the Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools guidance report.