Professional Development

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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.

20 May
Louise Stoll

Professional Development

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.

20 May 2019
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Chris Brown

Professional Development

How to … lead EPBL and the professional learning of EPBL teachers

Enquiry and project based learning places particular demands upon teachers. David Leat and Rachel Lofthouse explore the implications for professional learning and leadership.

20 May 2019
24mins
David Leat, Ulrike Thomas

Professional Development

How to … make the case for Enquiry and Project Based Learning

One of the biggest hurdles to overcome in enquiry and project based learning within schools is convincing people of its merits in the first place. David Leat, Rachel Lofthouse and Ulrike Thomas provide some helpful guidance.

20 May 2019
24mins
David Leat, Rachel Lofthouse, Ulrike Thomas

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Professional Development

Professional enquiry and teacher agency: putting teachers in control

Mark Priestley and Valerie Drew report on research into how teachers’ curriculum development activity was empowered through enquiry.

5 Aug

Professional Development

Research evidence and reflective teaching

Steve Higgins considers the relationship between research evidence and reflective teaching and argues that they are complementary in supporting the development of teachers’ professional expertise.

13 Feb

Professional Development

Professional learning through enquiry!

Graham Handscomb explores the integral relationship between professional development, enquiry and research engagement.

13 Feb

Professional Development

Seeing through the hullabaloo – cultivating a culture of enquiry

Gareth Mills explores some of the challenges and opportunities of teachers engaging with research. He examines how we might separate the wheat from the chaff to nurture a genuine culture of evidence-informed enquiry and positive change. “The statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty.” Richard Feynman

13 Feb

Professional Development

Making research engagement real

Graham Handscomb considers the power of research engagement and what is needed to fulfil its long heralded potential to transform professional learning.

13 Feb

Professional Development

School-university partnerships – fulfilling the potential

Graham Handscomb explores the contribution of school-university partnerships to professional learning and the features that can help to make them more effective.

19 Nov

Professional Development

Professional Development Today: a manifesto for change

In this article Chris Brown, Rachel Lofthouse and Graham Handscomb signal a forthcoming new approach to Professional Development Today.

18 Apr

Professional Development

Using Theories of Action to bring about improvement

Chris Brown and Jane Flood explore how the use of “Theories of Action” can help teachers engage in evidence-informed self improvement?

18 Apr

Professional Development

Evaluation through story-telling! – a tool for improving teaching

Does evaluation make any difference to improving teaching? Gina Sherwood describes her research among undergraduates, which indicates that a creative approach to evaluation through story-telling can be more fruitful.

18 Apr

Professional Development

Fishing for Evidence of Impact

In this article Gill Rowland, Hazel King, Penny Webb, Alison Cogger and Karen Vincent use seafaring imagery to portray a research project focussed on enriching mentoring within a school university initial teaching training partnership. They report on the professional development benefits gained from use of their framework for both school based mentors and university-based tutors.

18 Apr

Professional Development

To collaborate or not collaborate

A key feature of the self-improving school system is inter-school collaboration. Verena West explores the motivation, benefits and challenges inherent in such commitment to collaborate.

18 Apr

Professional Development

Delivering the goods – professional development that has impact

Sara Bubb describes how the use of her Professional Learning Framework helped to enhance teaching and learning in science, and have a clear impact for teachers’ practice and pupil outcomes.

18 Apr

Professional Development

Changing the system and listening to the professionals

In this polemical article Fiona Carnie argues that there is a crisis within the teaching profession which calls for radical changes in professional development and teacher education. She suggests that a significant shift of emphasis is needed whereby the collaborative voices of teachers are heard.

18 Apr

Professional Development

Leading the learning – yes but for what purpose?

In this article Peter Earley discusses notions of learning-centred leadership and leadership for learning.1He explains why leadership for learning matters even more in high stakes accountability systems. He sets out some fundamental questions for professional development and lays down the challenge that learning should be at the heart of leadership development programmes, especially the National Professional Qualifications (NPQs).

18 Apr

Professional Development

Improving the System

Graham Handscomb introduces this special double issue with its focus on school to school collaboration, system improvement and healthy leadership … and implications for professional development.

18 Apr

Professional Development

Inquiry with a creative edge!

Lesley Saunders describes how she worked with Year 11 students using the creative technique of “found poetry” to express professional development discussions that took place in a one-day conference on teachers’ inquiry projects.

20 Jun

Professional Development

Relationships Matter: fostering and sustaining resilient teachers

Qing Gu reports on how quality relationships and resilience form the foundations of teacher self-efficacy, growth and sense of fulfillment.

20 Jun

Professional Development

Re-creating Schools as Places of Belonging: The Art of Possibilities

In a global context of change and uncertainty, Kathryn Riley builds on her pioneering concept of Leadership of Place to pose fundamental challenges to the beliefs, thinking and professional practice of educators and leaders and to ask: How can we create schools that are places of belonging and possibility?

20 Jun

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