Professional Development
Professional Development – what works in professional learning
This arena is about the improvement t of teacher performance, mainly within a school setting.With articles, research and ‘How To’ guides on implementing new professional learning strategies and projects,.t
It looks at how to develop teachers as researchers, the importance of reflective practice, understanding the special skills required for teaching children with special needs and how to deliver emerging pedagogies like project-based and exploratory learning. It also looks at the special skills required by different levels of leadership in schools and how to develop teaching assistants to their fullest potential. Improving subject teaching is emerging as an increasingly important theme.
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Can Outstanding Schools Ever Bottle Their Success?
Roisin Killick and Peter Matthews analyse an innovative project called Growing The Top, in which the senior leaders of trios of outstanding schools pooled knowledge and expertise to find solutions to systemic challenges.
How to … make a difference to teaching and learning through collaborative enquiry
Louise Stoll shows how great professional learning, great pedagogy and great leadership are intrinsically related and how they can be achieved through collaborative enquiry.
How to … develop, trial and roll out your evidenced-informed intervention
Chris Brown gives guidance on how to go about the innovation stage of the RLC approach.
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