Research Archives

Helping expertise flow between classrooms

by admin | 20 Aug, 2018 | Newsletter, Research, Teachers

Teachers can learn a lot from their colleagues. Research in Florida and North Carolina has shown that when a highly effective teacher gets a job at a new school, their new colleagues tend to improve as a result. Indeed, about one fifth of teachers’ expertise (measured...

Trust, Teaching & Professional Capital

by admin | 11 May, 2018 | Opinion, Research, Uncategorized

“Strong cultures of collaborative professionalism are like strong teams. They thrive on diversity and disagreement, promote good variation of style, strengths, and overall approach, and increase individual as well as collective talent.” Fullan, M. & Hargreaves, A....

A postcode lottery for teachers

by David Weston | 18 Jan, 2018 | Data, Research, Teachers

Despite the increasingly urgent need to recruit and retain teachers, there are staggering differences in on-the-job support for teachers, depending on where in the country they teach. Our new analysis of 2016 figures show that the average full time teacher in...

Does Lesson Study work? A look at the new EEF trial

by David Weston | 10 Nov, 2017 | Research

David Weston is Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust and Chair of the Department for Education (England) Teachers’ Professional Development Expert Group. He is a governor and former teacher and was a founding Director of the Chartered College of...

Sir John Holman: 10 Benchmarks for Good Practical Science

by admin | 17 Oct, 2017 | Research, Resources, Teachers

Sir John Holman is senior education advisor to the Gatsby Foundation. He is Chair of Trustees of Teacher Development Trust and a former headteacher and science teacher. In a nation already suffering a STEM skills shortage, we cannot afford to ignore the benefits of...

Dr Gary Jones: Teachers’ perceptions of collaborative inquiry

by admin | 17 Aug, 2017 | Advice, Research, Teachers

As a school leader, one of the main challenges that that you will face in trying to establish a research and evidence-based culture within your school will be to try and provide opportunities for teachers and other colleagues to engage in collaborative inquiry (Brown,...