professional learning

Masters in Teaching and Learning: the journey continues

In the ever-evolving world of education, there are few new initiatives with as much potential to revolutionise teachers’ professional development as the new Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL). Here, Graham Holley, Chief Executive of the Training and Development Agency for Schools, explains.

School improvement & professional development

Martin Beedle describes how he used the General Teaching Council’s Teacher Learning Academy programme to nurture a professional learning community and fuel whole school improvement.

Coaching to manage performance

Vivienne Porritt questions the whole basis of the current approach to performance management and shows how this can be transformed through developing a coaching culture which focuses on ultimate learning games for children.

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How to make every lesson outstanding

How can teachers make their teaching more creative and inspiring? Marcella McCarthy gives practical guidance on how they can overcome doubt and reticence to make every lesson special.

Ensuring effective feedback for focussed CPD

Peter Taylor provides practical guidance on giving feedback to staff on classroom practice and shows how this can form an integral part of teacher professional development.

Active Enquiring Minds: empowering young researchers

The research of children and young people is not only vital to learning but also makes a fundamental contribution to school self-evaluation. Graham Handscomb and Ros Frost describe the research and development processs through which “Active Enquiring Minds”, a resource to equip young researchers and the adults who support them, was developed.

Imagination in Education: the work of Kieran Egan

Sue Lyle introduces the ideas of Kieran Egan, one of the world’s foremost thinkers on imaginative education, and considers the implications of his ideas for professional development.

essential reading

Assessment for Learning

This book offers valuable insights into assessment for learning as teachers describe in their own words how they turned the ideas into practical action in their schools.

Connecting Concepts

For teachers of English, PSHE, Citizenship, RE and the Humanities, this book introduces the strategy of 'concept gaming'

Asking Better Questions

Learn a host of inventive new ways to encourage students to become more effective learners by posing more thoughtful questions.

A World of Difference

This book analyses the issuessurrounding the world of differencewe see in schools today.

in the latest issue

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How to make every lesson outstanding; Ensuring effective feedback for focussed CPD; Active Enquiring Minds: empowering young researchers; Using a Development and Research Approach to tackle bullying; Improving Teaching and Learning; Engagement in School-based Collaborative Enquiry; Imagination in Education: the work of Kieran Egan; How to engage teachers in action learning sets; How to grow classroom-based practitioner enquiry & research

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