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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...
Continue reading blog postWhen 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...
Continue reading blog postThe field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...
Continue reading blog postThe notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...
Continue reading blog postTeacher knowledge is very much in the foreground of English early career teacher development, as articulated in the Department for Education’s (DfE) Core Content Framework and Early Career...
Continue reading blog postBERA’s recent work in supporting research focused on race and education, including the 2021 Small Grants Fund (BERA, 2022), is part of wider initiatives in school and higher education sectors to...
Continue reading blog postMathematical ideas, concepts or procedures are interconnected; they therefore cannot be understood well in isolation. Mathematical connections made in the classroom give students opportunities to...
Continue reading blog postGraduates are giving teaching the swerve in increasing numbers. The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that recruitment for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses at secondary level is...
Continue reading blog postIt is important that secondary school teachers know about the other subjects that are taught in their schools in order to provide a coherent curriculum experience for students. Over the past...
Continue reading blog postDesign research (or design-based research) is a methodological framework that focuses on the ‘tomorrow’; that is, the design of education as it could or should be (Bakker, 2018). Informed by a...
Continue reading blog postDistributed leadership has increased in popularity worldwide (Harris & Spillane, 2008). Research has been conducted across a diverse range of countries on distributed leadership and its...
Continue reading blog postEngland continues to have a long-standing problem with recruiting and retaining teachers. Despite high-profile policy discourses such as those in the 2022 initial teacher training (ITT) market...
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