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,...
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...
by Rachel Dunsby | 16 Dec, 2016
“Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better.” Dylan Wiliam In July 2016, the Department for Education published a new Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development for all schools in England. The...
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...
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...
