Initial Learning Resources
Educate your team about EMP and its underpinning principles: everything you need to get staff ready before you start.
Get your team ready for the EMP
Leaders have asked us, ‘How can I get my team ready for the EMP?’ Aside from setting aside 2.5 hours at the start of the year to run through our in-built implementation training with all staff, there is lots you can do to prepare for success.
Ideas to prepare your team
Here are some ideas of things you could do with staff to prepare for the EMP:
Watch the EMP’s two Think Forward Educator webinars (Explicit Mathematics Teaching: Unlocking the science of mathematics in the primary classroom, and Key Instructional Routines in the Primary Mathematics Classroom) with staff in an after-school PD session, pausing periodically for reflection, questions and discussion (free Think Forward Educators log-in required).
Direct staff to the Explicit Mathematics Podcast and have them listen to the episode on the planning that goes into an EMP lesson, or another of your choice. Set an episode as independent listening over a fortnight, then set aside 15 minutes in a following staff meeting to discuss.
Do some professional learning with staff on underpinning principles for the EMP, including Cognitive Load Theory, Spaced Practice, Interleaving, The Testing Effect,Daily Reviews, and more. The main idea is to give teachers a deeper knowledge of the ‘why’ behind the EMP.
Run our introduction-to-the-EMP webinar for new schools, which covers many common questions asked by schools and teachers when starting out.
Recommended reading: the power of scripted programs
EMP Co-founder Ollie Lovell has written a series of posts to help address common misconceptions around this form of instruction: