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Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...

Grief matters

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Exploring the impact of bereavement & grief on learning for all

‘Being well’ and ‘doing well’: Exploring the relationship between student and teacher wellbeing

There is a tendency to see teacher wellbeing and student wellbeing as competing concerns in school leadership and culture. What teacher wellbeing and student wellbeing have in common is the...

Call for reviewers for landmark BERA & BCF publication

BERA and the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) are currently editing an exciting landmark publication, Curriculum in a changing world: 50 think pieces on education policy, practice, innovation &...

Developing key stage three assessment and feedback policy and practice: Recommendations for English secondary schools and teachers

Introduction Research on the importance of ‘feedback literacy’ (helping learners to understand and use their teachers’ feedback to improve their learning) and ‘student agency’ (where...

Educators’ approach to ‘silence’ and ‘listening differently’

Introduction Educators, at times, encounter situations when they ask students questions after teaching, only to be met with silence, or when they assign group exercises or activities and students...

Reconstructing student teachers’ classroom management learning processes

It is widely known that early career teachers experience problems caused by the gap between the focus on theory in teacher education and the practical orientation at internship schools and in...

Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and pedagogic quality

Do satisfied teachers teach more effectively than their less satisfied colleagues? Although previous research has investigated the factors which lead to teachers being more satisfied with their...

Summer 2023

Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination

Elaine Sharpling

I am currently the Director of Education Research and Enquiry at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. The move to this relatively new position was made after being the Director of Initial...

The teacher recruitment freefall: Opening the parachute requires us to understand our prospective teachers better

In their BERA Blog post ‘Dropping off a cliff’ Innes et al. (2023) break down four areas of policy which they suggest are the ‘real driver’ of frighteningly low teacher training...

Beyond performance: Increasing teacher capabilities through a distributed leadership coaching model

When academics talk about coaching in schools, often the focus is on teachers’ and pupils’ performance (Knight, 2007; Bresser & Wilson, 2010). While there are laudable achievements of peer...