David C Berliner, Regents’ Professor of Education Emeritus, Arizona State University, USA For many teachers, research in education has a bad name. There are at least two reasons for this. Firstly, it doesn’t replicate well from school site to school site. Site variation is inevitably enormous, and thus research findings are affected by factors such […]
Lorne Stefanini and Jenny Griffiths, Coalition for Evidence-Based Education (CEBE), UK In 2013, Ben Goldacre called for a greater use of evidence in education to improve outcomes for children and increase professional independence, and ResearchEd was born. In just a few years, changes to initial teacher education (ITE) have reinforced this message (Carter, 2015; Bennett, […]
Richard Churches, Education Development Trust, UK Eleanor Dommett, Institute Of Psychiatry, Psychology And Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK Ian Devonshire, Nottingham University Medical School, UK Robin Hall, Education Section, British Science Association, UK Steve Higgins, School Of Education, Durham University, UK Astrid Korin, Education Development Trust, UK Previously we wrote for Impact outlining a Wellcome […]
Alice Reedy, Teacher, Kaizen Primary School (Part of East London Research School), UK There is a broad range of existing research dedicated to the subject of reading for pleasure and the advocacy of engaging in this activity as a key factor in children’s educational development, both academic and social (Sainsbury and Schagen, 2004; Petscher, 2010; […]
Jonathan Firth, Teaching Fellow, University of Strathclyde, UK Jennifer Zike, PhD Student in Education, University of Strathclyde, UK Myths and misconceptions about learning are pervasive among the teaching profession. Myths such as ‘learning styles’ or the idea that some pupils are ‘left brained or right brained’ have been endorsed by over 90 per cent of […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Theoretical perspectives of enhancing e-learning within compulsory education Increasingly, education settings are moving towards greater use of e-learning. This is partly a natural progression, for example, in setting homework, but the COVID-19 epidemic has more recently prompted a mass migration to online learning. Since the use of e-learning within […]
In this webinar recording, Tom Bennett (Author, Running the Room: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour and Director, ResearchEd) and Amy Forrester (Director of Pastoral Care KS4, Cockermouth School) answer questions around behaviour management and establishing routines in the classroom. They discuss: The importance of behaviour management, why Tom Bennett was compelled to write ‘Running […]
Classroom routines are an important part of making classrooms safe and productive spaces for pupils to learn. Having expected ways of behaving for key transitions or activities means that more time can be spent learning than ‘getting ready’. Routines can be established that will benefit from regular practise and revisiting until they are well embedded […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ A culture of student agency and the effects of enforced online learning I recently facilitated some COVID-19 focus group discussions with UK teachers, and the phrase, ‘What’s the point?’ was the reported view of many students who no longer believed in the purpose or structure of their education, after […]
In this webinar recording, Professor Paul Washington Miller (President, Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management), Naheeda Maharasingam (Headteacher, Rathfern Primary School) and Professor Dame Alison Peacock (Chief Executive, Chartered College of Teaching) discuss: Anti-racism De-colonising the curriculum Approaches to building greater diversity across the profession We need long-term solutions for the profession to […]
In this recorded panel discussion, Professor Dame Alison Peacock, Aretha Banton, Uzma Sarwar and Youlande Harrowell discuss issues of diversity in education, share lived experiences of racism within education, and talk about their work in forming Mindful Equity UK, a peer support network with the mission of: Supporting Black and Asian women in education to navigate […]
For our #FutureOfTeaching series, Professor Barry Carpenter joins Professor Dame Alison Peacock – CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching – to discuss a ‘recovery curriculum’. With a look at the emotional impact of the pandemic on children, the aims of a ‘recovery curriculum’ and how to re-engage the disengaged. What should the future of teaching look […]
In our report Education in the time of crisis: The potential implications of school closures for teachers and students we considered what we could learn from past crises about the potential implications of school closures and the crisis more widely for students’ learning and student as well as teacher wellbeing. While we can learn a […]
After the period of lockdown away from their friends and social support networks, getting back to a Drama classroom will allow students to reconnect socially, emotionally and creatively. Even if we are physically socially-distanced, the Drama classroom is a safe space where students can talk about their emotions, their lived experiences, developing empathy for others […]
Join Professor Dame Alison Peacock (Chief Executive, Chartered College of Teaching), Dr Lisa-Maria Muller (Education Research Manager, Chartered College of Teaching), Bavaani Nanthabalan (Executive Headteacher, Netley Primary School) and Dr Marcelo Staricoff (Author, Director and Consultant, JONK Thinking and Learning) as they: present findings from a scoping review on the links between multilingualism in the […]
This case study is written by Robbie Burns, a primary school teacher and humanities leader. As you read this case study, reflect on the approaches suggested for developing subject expertise and consider how the approaches might be relevant to your own development as an early career teacher. In this case study, I hope to […]
In the beginning of January 2020, Time Magazine published an article about the benefits of being bored, particularly in relation to adults, and the way in which boredom can spark creativity. Boredom has a very bad reputation over the years. “The devil makes work for idle hands” (anon), “Boredom is the enemy of successful education” […]
Local authorities in Scotland have been exploring whether outdoor learning could be part of the answer to achieving social distancing and minimising transmission of COVID-19 in schools (Brooks, 2020). Scientists and medical experts are increasingly confident that coronavirus spreads less easily outdoors due to better ventilation; whilst virus-laden particles may be able to travel tens […]
TeachTogether is a free service from the Chartered College of Teaching and The Behavioural Insights Team, which sends one text a week to support teachers’ wellbeing. You can find out more and sign up here. In one week’s message, we asked teachers to tell us what small things they do to take care of themselves […]
Overview Recent events have highlighted a long since established need for educators to examine how we can advance racial equality in and through education. This is clearly a complex issue with varied and strongly-held views, but no simple solutions. This reading list is an extended and updated version of an earlier reading list supporting teachers […]
