Jemima Rhys-Evans, HEAD OF PRIMARY CURRICULUM AND STANDARDS, THE CHARTER SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST; DIRECTOR, CHARLES DICKENS RESEARCH SCHOOL, UK
Just over fiv...
Adam Stubbs, Teacher of Science, Park View School, UK
Research into learning and cognition has led to the use of various evidence-based approaches in the class...
Caroline Locke, Second in Charge of Mathematics, Haberdasher's Aske's Crayford Academy, UK
The issue of marking and feedback impacts every teacher. The Departm...
Cecilia Astolfi , Teacher of Physics, Brentwood School, UK
Flashcards are a method of retrieval involving a prompt or question on one side of a card, and a sta...
Stephen Lee and Terry Dawson, Mathematics in Education and Industry, UK
Core Maths is a general title for a range of Level 3 (post-16) maths qualifications tha...
LORNA SHIRES, DOCTORAL STUDENT AND PRINCIPAL LECTURER, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, UK
Research into expert teachers
Most research about expert teachers conside...
Ben West, Achievement Lead and Teacher of English, The Garibaldi School, UK
Understanding the secondary context
Ofsted’s ‘Key Stage 3: The wasted years?’ repo...
RYAN J CRAZE, TEACHER OF HISTORY AND GIFTED AND MORE ABLE STUDENTS LEAD, HARLINGTON UPPER SCHOOL, UK
"I couldn’t remember what to write."
"Some people make ...
Lisa Vann, Teaching and Learning Associate, Transform Trust, UK
How do we encourage our early career teachers to engage purposefully with research and in at a ...
Alex Beauchamp, Lead Practitioner, Hunter’s Bar Junior School, UK; Expert CPD Adviser, Teacher Development Trust, UK
What’s more ironic than continuing profess...
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...
