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Navigating the Stormy Sea of CPD in Schools

by admin | 7 Jun, 2017 | Advice, Research, Teachers

It is perhaps no surprise that schools are finding it challenging to find the very best professional development opportunities for their staff. Within an increasingly fractured system, schools have to navigate independent providers, local authorities, teaching...

Can Lesson Study Work in the UK?

by admin | 10 Mar, 2017 | Advice, Opinion, Research

Lesson Study is a model of collaborative enquiry originating from Japan that is becoming increasingly popular around the world as a way to enhance classroom practice. When carried out effectively, Lesson Study has the potential to transform teacher practice and...

Where are the Mental Health First Aiders in our Schools?

by admin | 7 Dec, 2016 | Research, Teachers

Dr Helen Pote is a Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience in the NHS and schools helping young people with their mental health problems and supporting teachers to do the same. She has worked for over 15 years as an academic and researcher at the...

What’s going wrong? Surprising findings of CPD study

by admin | 24 Oct, 2016 | Research

What’s going wrong? Focusing on Mathematical Knowledge: The Impact of Content-Intensive Teacher Professional Development In September, a rather surprising study was released by the US Institute of Education Sciences. ‘Focusing on teachers’ mathematical knowledge: The...

Why should schools be engaging parents?

by admin | 18 Oct, 2016 | Advice, Research, Uncategorized

A few years ago, I was talking to a boy in year 7. He was already in a programme to prevent him from being excluded, and he was telling me that he was trying hard to behave well. I asked if his teachers were pleased with his progress. His answer summed up my area of...

Is reading a virus?

by admin | 26 Sep, 2016 | Research, Teachers

Dr Jessie Ricketts (@ricketts_lara) In 1998, Uta Frith argued that reading, a cultural invention, is a ‘virus’ that ‘infects speech processing’. So how does learning to read impact on oral vocabulary learning? Infants begin by learning spoken labels (phonological...