Delivering on curriculum intent: Lesson study as a mechanism to enhance curriculum implementation and assess curriculum impact on pupils with special educational needs

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice

Lesson study (LS) is a much studied, structured approach that offers the time and space for teachers to focus constructively on children’s learning and plan lessons collaboratively with...

Evidence-based practice in schools: What’s really going on?

Improving educational outcomes through high-quality provision is one of the main aims of education systems across the world. Over recent decades there has been a concerted move by policymakers in...

Strengthening teacher networks: Decolonising secondary school history curricula

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research

The decolonising of curricula is a current issue in education, but the complexities and varying interpretations of what this actually means can present challenges and uncertainty. During a time...

Where’s the geography? The importance of geography to disciplinary debates about, and teaching in, education

Initial Teacher Education offers fascinating, complex and vital opportunities to think across academic disciplines, school subjects and pedagogy. Over a decade ago, reflecting on her experiences...

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of five research projects that have investigated aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. Supported by BERA's...

Post-truth teachers

Teaching is values-based and complex. While theory and research within the field of education is contested, we require high-quality teachers who exercise professional judgement in deciding what...

Climate change education: What do we know about the sources of information teachers are using?

Teachers can access a huge amount of information. The quantities are so vast they’re hard to comprehend. On a daily basis, more than 3.5 billion Google searches are conducted, more than 3.3...

Mentoring the supervising teachers for effective development of pre-service teachers’ assessment literacy

The strong partnership between initial teacher education (ITE) providers and schools ensures that pre-service teachers (PSTs) can further develop practical skills during their practicum. One of...

Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education

In the movie satire Don’t Look Up, a deadly comet threatens to hit earth. Two astronomers recognise the impending disaster, but their warnings remain unheeded. The US President, experts and the...

2021/22 experiences of academics in teacher education: ‘I should not be afraid in my job, but I am’

This blog post briefly explores some initial findings from a study on the experiences of academics working partly or fully in initial teacher education (ITE) in the UK, and particularly their...

‘Challenging’ reflexivity in the transition between practicums: A practical and gamified approach to embed ‘big ideas’ into the teacher education curriculum

Like all teacher educators in England, we are conscious that our practice is increasingly located in turbulent and changing political and managerial landscapes for teacher education (see Murtagh &...

‘Shut up and leave me alone’: Why schools need to be places of belonging

‘Shut up and leave me alone’ were the only words that 10-year-old refugee ‘Aisha’ could find to say in English after three weeks in her school. She was the outsider who didn’t...