Issue 16.1

Twitter! – its potential for professional development

Jane Jones explores the selective use of twitter as an individualised mode of professional development. She argues that its crucial power lies in enabling individuals to be in control of their own any time any place professional learning.

2 Jan 2014
24mins

Professional Development

Thinking ethically to support practitioner research

Angela Brown and Alison Fox describe how a Teaching School Alliance worked in collaboration with its university partners to produce an ethical protocols framework which supports extensive practitioner research.

2 Jan 2014
24mins

Professional Development

How to… grow mindsets for effective learning

Children’s, teachers’ and parents’ views of the nature and importance of intelligence and ability inevitably affect learning. One group of teachers at Blean Primary School wanted to explore whether these views could be shifted through intervention to achieve a more positive mindset. Judy Durrant reports.

2 Jan 2014
24mins

Professional Development

How to… engage and activate learning

While children often prefer to be active in their learning, lessons can easily slip into passive modes of delivery without teachers realising. Judy Durrant reports how, at Blean Primary School, teachers’ investigations helped to quantify the balance of classroom activities.

2 Jan 2014
24mins

Professional Development

How to… develop talk for learning

The pressures of a content-laden curriculum and the need to demonstrate the necessary levels of progress often seem to pressurise teachers into leading learning from the front of the classroom. One group of teachers from Blean Primary School had the courage to ask ‘Do we talk too much?’ as the focus for their action research.

2 Jan 2014
24mins

Professional Development

How to… understand children’s individual needs

Children’s reactions differ markedly within the same class, so it's difficult to categorise according to clear-cut groups or find a solution that ‘works’ for everyone. This section details how Blean Primary School developed different enquiry approaches to research this further.

2 Jan 2014
24mins

Professional Development

How to… learn with and from children

Introduction to this issue's 'How to...' segment by Judy Durrant, focusing on showing how children themselves can be the source of teachers’ professional development. (Open access)

2 Jan 2014
24mins

Professional Development

Beyond interventions

Loic Menzies explores using the Pupil Premium to improve teaching quality through professional development.

20 Dec 2013
24mins

Professional Development

Leadership where it counts: making a bigger difference to your students

Viviane Robinson outlines the five dimensions of “student-centred leadership” their implications for professional learning and how they can be used to make a positive difference to student learning.

20 Dec 2013
24mins

Professional Development

The “Powerful Learning” Framework

David Hopkins and Wayne Craig describe strategies for a “powerful learning” framework. It includes an unrelenting focus on the “instructional core” – curriculum innovation, professional development and student voice – and places what students actually do, and the sense they make of it, at the centre.

20 Dec 2013
24mins

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Issue 16.1

Twitter! – its potential for professional development

Thinking ethically to support practitioner research

How to… grow mindsets for effective learning

How to… engage and activate learning

How to… develop talk for learning

How to… understand children’s individual needs

How to… learn with and from children

Beyond interventions

Leadership where it counts: making a bigger difference to your students

The “Powerful Learning” Framework

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