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NTEN December end of term newsletter
Welcome to the National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter. In this issue: Making a difference: a practical approach to evaluating the impact of professional development. Vivienne Porritt, Assistant Director of School Partnerships, Institute of Education, London. Supporting effective CPD for NQTs: NQTs must ‘learn how…
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Using pupil data to turbo charge your professional development and school improvement
This article first appeared in the BETT 2013 Learning Leaders magazine. It is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter (sign up here). When classroom teachers feel that they ‘own’ the assessment data about their pupils it can be the…
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Supporting effective CPD for NQTs
This article originally appeared in the Teacher Development Trust’s regular CPD column in SecEd on the 27th of November 2012. It is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter (sign up here). NQTs must ‘learn how to learn’ if they…
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Making a difference: a practical approach to evaluating the impact of professional development
Making a difference: a practical approach to evaluating the impact of professional development This blog was written by Vivienne Porritt (@LCLL_Director), Assistant Director for School Partnerships at the Institute of Education (IOE). It is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term…
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When is an Effect Size ineffective?
“Effect Size” is the new magic number that, it seems, will solve all of our education problems. Ideas with big effect sizes are apparently the new panaceas, and small effect size ideas are panned. However, misuse and misunderstanding of this statistic is causing big problems….
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The many challenges of evidence-based teaching
This is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter (sign up here). Not a day goes by without an educational commentator lamenting the lack of evidence-based thinking, policy or practice in our school system. If only everyone made evidence-based…