This article argues for a situated perspective of new teachers’ work and professional learning, and highlights important considerations for retention and succes...
Japanese lesson study has become increasingly popular (Seleznyov, 2018) as an approach to teacher professional development in the UK. Translated from the words ...
Achinstein (2002) suggests that conflict is essential in a learning community. Yet, while some communities will be conflict-embracing, others will externalise t...
Establishing a professional learning community is a cornerstone of Learn-AT’s organisational mission, both as a trust and as a teaching school. Since Learn-AT l...
Lesson study has been ‘the primary form of professional development in Japan for over a hundred years’ (Takahashi and McDougal, 2016, p. 514). The features of e...
There is an ever-increasing focus on teacher learning. Teacher learning aims to improve teacher practice, which has an impact on student outcomes. It is therefo...
The East Sussex ‘Interacting with babies (0-18m)’ collaborative research project
The aim of this project was to create a learning culture of professional refle...
For teachers as well as students, actions speak louder than words. A learning culture means practising what we preach and paying careful attention to how our as...
Observation is not a term that is often met with excitement or jubilation by teachers across the profession, even though there is an acknowledgement of the impa...
How do we characterise an effective CPD programme? It is relatively easy to identify slots in the calendar and gather staff together, but good attendance and ho...
Teachers have a responsibility to impart knowledge to students that can be applied later in life. However, this knowledge may not always be effectively transfer...
As Dylan Wiliam (2016) described, ‘the major contribution to improving teacher quality must come from improving the quality of teachers already working in our s...
Abstract
To increase the impact of the classroom management course required for the teaching degree programme at one small, private Midwestern university, the ...
A learning community can be seen as one where the concept of learning moves beyond the idea of ‘learning = being taught’ towards the view that ‘learning = const...
This short article accompanies the one by Claire Badger, Miles Golland and Amanda Triccas, also in this edition of Impact. These teacher-authors describe the co...
