Graham Handscomb

Research-Based Professional Development – Global Perspectives

Graham Handscomb shows that, despite a slow gestation, research-based professional development is beginning to flourish across the globe.

• 28 Feb

Trends In School Improvement

Graham Handscomb explores the plethora of research and thinking about school improvement. He concludes that teachers are the key and their knowledge of what works in each professional context.

• 30 Oct

Developing A Sense Of Identity Through Teacher Networks

Graham Handscomb explains the integral links between teacher identity, collaboration and networking and the benefits derived for the quality of both teaching and learning

• 26 Sep

Teachers Hold The Key To Successful Networking

• 19 Apr

Teachers Doing It For Themselves!

Graham Handscomb considers the proposals for the soon to be established National Institute of Teaching and concludes there is nothing new under the sun!

• 4 Jul

Kunskapsskolan – The Approach That Really Delivers Personalised Learning!

Graham Handscomb says that Personalised Learning is the holy grail of schools and educators. Yet despite decades of planning and noble intentions it can seem as elusive as ever. With the development of the Kunskapsskolan movement, originating in Sweden and now traversing the world, personalisation – putting learners at the heart of their own learning - is within reach.

• 11 Oct

School Peer Review Beats High Stakes External Inspection

In its 30 years of operation Ofsted has been painfully slow to embrace reform by moving towards greater emphasis on school self-evaluation. Graham Handscomb argues that the era of peer review has arrived and trumps outmoded adversarial inspection.

• 19 Sep

Kunskapsskolan – The Approach That Really Delivers Personalised Learning!

Graham Handscomb says that Personalised Learning is the holy grail of schools and educators. Yet despite decades of planning and noble intentions it can seem as elusive as ever. With the development of the Kunskapsskolan movement, originating in Sweden and now traversing the world, personalisation – putting learners at the heart of their own learning - is within reach.

• 29 Jul

Professional Development in Pandemic Times

Graham Handscomb suggests that the pandemic crisis has highlighted the need for more professional development rather than less, particularly for those working with the most disadvantaged students

• 2 May

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