This is, perhaps, not a typical Impact editorial – but we are not in typical times. School leaders, teachers and school support staff across the country have de...
Retaining more teachers is crucial for the education system, particularly at a time when there are not enough teachers coming into the profession to meet the gr...
At Charles Dickens Primary School, we have been working for five years to reduce teacher workload. We started with written marking and have subsequently address...
It is widely acknowledged that improving the quality of teaching and leadership are two of the key levers for improving educational outcomes (Hattie, 2003; Leit...
In common with many other parts of the world, England is facing increasing challenge in attracting new teachers to the profession. According to the government’s...
The Department for Education (DfE) has taken steps over recent years to emphasise the importance of addressing excessive teacher workload, in order to reduce th...
Teacher wellbeing – particularly negative teacher wellbeing – is a topic regularly hitting newspaper headlines. The sense of crisis in headlines such as ‘I am g...
Wellbeing has many intangible, perhaps ‘fluffy’ connotations, yet it encompasses what we are all trying to achieve, as people and teachers: to be well, to feel ...
The Department for Education’s School Workforce in England (2019) figures show that 23,500 newly qualified teachers (NQTs) entered the profession into state-fun...
As a trainee teacher, the profession’s reputation for extreme workloads certainly preceded itself. Whilst this reputation is somewhat well earned, I must admit ...
The Department for Education (DfE) has calculated that 22 per cent of teachers in England leave the profession within their first two years of teaching, with th...
Teachers acquire new skills in a number of ways: through experience, through working with other high-quality teachers and through participating in effective pro...
Across my career, I have experienced different formats of CPD. Some of these have been successful, where they have given staff the opportunity to discuss the im...
Since the end of the 19th century, journal clubs have been used in medicine as a social way to read and discuss new research. By the 1980s, many medical trainin...
In a climate where teachers’ response to traditional continuous professional development (CPD) and feedback from formal observations is often ‘passive’ (Daniels...
Why focus on continuous professional development?
Wiliam suggests that ‘teacher quality is the most important ingredient of an effective education system’ (201...
While working as a newly qualified teacher in Hong Kong, I often reflected upon, and explored with my colleagues, which classroom strategies might help to suppo...
This reflection describes the development of a trust-wide professional learning culture where ‘professionals continually developing and supporting each other s...
The best thing we can do for disadvantaged students is to give them-high quality teachers. Research from the Sutton Trust in 2011 showed the significant impact ...
Perhaps more than ever before, there is a real opportunity to develop communities of professional learning that instil habits of collaboration, deep thinking an...
