WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS COURSE

  • Combines the new report format with the 2025 maths guidance and linking to the STEC list
  • A detailed look at each section
  • Determining the assessment through background information and emerging profile
  • A deeper dive into Maths attainment, numerical cognition, planning, memory and attention, visual spatial reasoning.
  • Which tests can be used presently (and what might be available in the near future)
  • Making a diagnosis
  • Additional resources – useful checklists and proformae


Enrolment is for 120 days and includes unlimited access.

This session is led by...

Senior Trainer

Janet Goring

Janet taught for twenty-five years, following a PGCE specialising in maths. She developed an interest in maths difficulties in order to help her own son. She set up a local authority service identifying and supporting pupils with maths difficulties in 2010 and went on to manage the wider support service for pupils with literacy and maths difficulties for six years. Following her level 7 assessment qualification, she completed a masters in SpLD, with a project on developing number sense through using a board game. Janet has also led work groups for the Maths Hubs focussing on supporting students with SEND through a graduated approach for seven years. She is a member of STEC (SASC test evaluation committee) and is currently chairing the national working group re-examining the definition and guidance for Dyscalculia and Maths Difficulties for SASC (Specific Learning Difficulties Assessment Committee).

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome!

    • Hello

    • Welcome!
  • 2

    Your presentation slides

    • Session One: Getting Started

    • Session 1a Background Information

    • Session 1b: Language and Reasoning

    • Session 2: Attainment: Maths and Literacy

    • Session 3a Cognitive Presentation: Processing and Retrieval/Memory and attention

    • Session 3b Cognitive Presentation: Numerical Cognition

    • Session 3c Visual Spatial Processing

    • Session 4a Diagnostic Decision

    • Session 4b Recommendations
  • 3

    Session Recordings

    • 1. Intro

    • 2. Background Part 1

    • 3. Background Part 2

    • 4. Attainment

    • 5. Short Q&A

    • 6. Attainment Maths

    • 7. Form Feedback

    • 8. Attainment Maths continued

    • 9. Q&A

    • 10. RAN

    • 11. Numerical processing

    • 12. Visual spatial

    • 13. Diagnostic Decision

    • Recommendations

    • Accessing Your Certificate

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