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...
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...
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...
Why focus on continuous professional development?
Wiliam suggests that ‘teacher quality is the most important ingredient of an effective education system’ (201...
This reflection describes the development of a trust-wide professional learning culture where ‘professionals continually developing and supporting each other s...
Virtually everyone working in schools would agree that CPD is important, but in a Teacher Tapp survey, 40 per cent of secondary classroom teachers claimed that ...
Conflict of interest statement: The authors of this case study work for Challenge Partners, an education charity who operate a paid membership model for schools...
In this comparative case study, I examine how two expert American high school teachers design, organise and teach their classes to identify teacher pedagogical ...
In 2016, although our school was improving, we needed to do more. Faculty leaders reported spending too much time reactively managing behaviour; staff saw a nee...
Rationale
In May 2018, a cockapoo puppy, aged nine weeks old, was introduced to Our Lady’s Catholic High School, Lancashire. The dog was undergoing training to...
In this case study we explore a whole-school approach to addressing concerns about homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in an inner-city London s...
School leadership teams must somehow balance developing teachers whilst accepting that this may equip and inspire them for promotion elsewhere, with potentially...
Motivation
Teach SouthEast is a school-centred initial teacher training provider (SCITT). In the secondary SCITT, we currently work with 20 partner schools to ...
The extent and growing problem of mental health issues faced by pupils of all ages in our schools over the past decade is well documented (Weale, 2019). Recent ...
The recent green paper ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’ (Department of Health and Department of Education, 2017) highlighted t...
"Pupils are potentially losing up to an hour of learning each day in English schools."
(Ofsted, 2014, p. 4)
A 2012/13 survey, commissioned by Ofsted, gather...
The Review of Vocational Education, written by Baroness Wolf and published in 2011, set out a series of recommendations for an improvement in further education ...
The study of multimodality, as explained by Bezemer (2012), ‘focuses on analysing and describing the full repertoire of meaning-making resources that people use...
Daisy Christodoulou (2013) suggests that if we wish students to be able to solve real-world problems, we cannot teach them as if they already able to solve such...
In recent years, cognitive scientists have provided teachers with insights into ways of helping students to remember learning. Driven by the work of Willingham ...
