Teacher educators’ identity
Systematic research on the development of a professional identity of teacher educators is still scarce, but there are indications that teacher educators who become involved in professional...
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Involving students in assessment conversations
For students to be actively engaged in their own learning journey, they need to know what they are learning, why they are learning it, how to learn it, how well they are learning it, and how to...
Continue readingEffectiveness of mathematics teaching: the truth about China and England
Building on last year’s BERA paper, this year, we are sharing the key findings from the completed EMT project. With more to be found in the paper and the presentation, here we highlight a small...
Continue readingCan classroom enquiry be sexy and be policy at the same time?
There was recently a DfE call for evidence on Teacher Development to inform a national standard. I am interested because I have pioneered UK Lesson Study - which I view as a powerful form of...
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Can we learn together?
I wrote this whilst at BERA conference in Belfast and pondered the extent to which we can deepen the links between the school system and HEIs in England. From a school leader perspective I see a...
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The continued relevance of Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Following several conversations with recently qualified colleagues, it is alarming to me that many young educators have neither come into contact with, nor engaged with, the ideas of Paolo Freire...
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Living with Research
The English education system is riddled with contradictions and the call for teaching to become more of a research based profession is just one of them. This call raises a number of problems for...
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What difference can be made to teacher practice in assessment for learning?
Most people want students to learn as well as possible, while being fiscally and time efficient. The majority of teachers do the best they can. Yet some students and teachers appear to achieve...
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OXBOW Schools…and worse
What name would you give to a school or group of schools that won’t share? ‘Oxbow’ sounds a good name to me, after those lakes that were once part of the mainstream but are now cut off to...
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The potential of inter-professional learning in supporting children with speech, language and communication needs
You may be aware of two pieces of research recently published about children’s speech, language and communication needs. The National Literacy Trust (Read On Get On campaign) commissioned James...
Continue readingDe-professionalising or re-professionalising the Early Childhood Workforce in England
This blog is based on the papers presented in the BERA 2015 Conference Symposium ‘De-professionalising or re-professionalising the Early Childhood Workforce in England?’ Elizabeth Wood, Jo...
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Universities, schools and a system in flux – looking back on Carter and looking forward to the future of Initial Teacher Education in England
In 2014 I was part of the Carter Review of ITT – an experience that was rewarding, intense and often stressful. I met a student teachers, mentors, heads, university and school based tutors, NQTs...
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