Issue 21.3/4

How Can Schools Use Evidence To Improve Teaching?

Steve Higgins sets out how the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit can help make evidence school friendly so that it can be readily used to improve practice.

21 Feb 2021
24mins
Steve Higgins

Professional Development

Searching For The Diamond In The Mine -Evidence That Classroom Practice Works

Jonathan Haslam sets out the tough challenges that need to be tackled if we are to achieve genuine evidenced-based reform in our schools.

21 Feb 2021
24mins
Jonathan Haslam

Professional Development

Teacher Research Engagement – Overcoming Barriers

Obstacles to teachers engaging in and with research can be a combination of their own reservations and voices of dissent from policy makers and school leaders. Claire Harley proclaims the importance of research informed practice and how barriers can be removed.

21 Feb 2021
24mins
Claire Harley

Professional Development

How Can We Help Teachers To Promote Evidence-Led Teaching?

Stephen Gorard argues that improvements in education research have not been accompanied by the means of getting this research used in education practice. He explains what needs to be done to help teachers sift out and use high quality evidence.

21 Feb 2021
24mins
Stephen Gorard

Blogs

The Research-Informed Teaching Revolution: A Handbook For The 21st Century Teacher

David Godfrey finds in this book an edifying buffet from which readers can gain nourishment in their exploration of research-informed teaching.

16 Feb 2021
24mins
David Godfrey

Professional Development

How To Use Research-Informed Teacher Development To Achieve School Improvement

Maria Cunningham and David Weston report on their investigation into the conditions that enable teachers to draw on educational research to secure school improvement impact

16 Feb 2021
24mins
David Weston, Maria Cunningham

Professional Development

Putting Practitioner Research At The Heart Of Learning In The Classroom

Vivienne Marie Baumfield argues that the debate about teachers’ research engagement needs to be cast in terms of their understanding of what has worked and not worked in the classroom and how this contributes to a body of knowledge. She sees the key to maximising this engagement as lying in partnership working.

14 Feb 2021
24mins
Vivienne Marie Baumfield

Professional Development

Research In Schools – Are You Serious!

The prospect of schools using and doing research as a fundamental part of their outlook, purpose and practice has been long heralded … but achingly slow in its realisation.

14 Feb 2021
24mins
Graham Handscomb