Professional Development Academy

Our brand-new Professional Development Academy provides access to a wide range of high-quality training courses to support you in delivering our Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Mathematics for post-16 resits qualification with confidence.

We have a range of on-demand, live and self-guided courses available, creating flexible learning options at a time and place that suits you.

To browse our extensive range of training events and courses visit the Professional Development Academy.

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Free event - Pearson Edexcel GCSE Maths for Post-16 Boost Resources

Join Nicola Woodford-Smith on 5 May 2022 for an overview to all the new resources that have been designed to help support students studying GCSE maths in a post-16 setting.

Many of these types of learners find it difficult to engage with the content and so the Pearson maths team have researched key topics and added contextual elements to lesson plans along with producing themed papers to help with course engagement to ensure learners have a positive learning experience.

We will also share the ideas and style of the new online diagnostic assessment to help flag areas of learning for your students which will be available from September.

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GCSE (9–1) Mathematics – How to apply the mark scheme and strategies to standardise markings

Watch our free on-demand training about how to apply our mark schemes, general marking guidance and strategies on how to standardise marking for GCSE (9–1) Mathematics. Julie, our Chair of Examiners for GCSE Mathematics, talks through an array of questions from past papers including November 2020 examinations with a focus on the reason, interpret and communicate questions (AO2), and the problem-solving questions (AO3). 

This on-demand training will cover:

• the types of marks in the assessment and how to read and apply mark schemes
• looking at a selection of past paper questions including November 2020 examinations
• an in-depth talk through of how to mark more complex AO2/AO3 questions like an examiner
• a variety of real-life student responses to questions and clear explanations as to why marks should or should not be awarded for each response.

Go to the training

As you go through the training, you may find it useful to have the ‘Mark Scheme Training Delegate Pack’ to hand.

Past training content

All the recordings of our free online network events can be found on YouTube on the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Maths Networks playlist.