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Bringing Research Resources to Practitioner Users via Web Technology: Lessons Learned to date.

Summary Web resources for education , what's the problem?

Over the past few years there has been growing interest in making educational research more relevant to the concerns of consumers outside universities - in particular teachers. More and more schools and individual teachers are seeking to engage in and with research to inform their practice in a range of contexts, from classroom teaching strategies to leadership. Nowadays there is much more educational research on the web but is it accessible to teachers' What are the problems in finding relevant research through educational databases? Drawing on their experience of searching educational databases and on the results of a small scale informal survey of titles and abstracts a CUREE team explored a number of problems practitioners faced when trying to access educational research.

Leading Continuing Professional Development in School Networks: Adding Value, Securing Impact

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The Leading CPD in School Networks leaflet has been produced as part of the NCSL Network Research series. The leaflet is the final product from a collaborative enquiry that took place during 2005, involving all the national agencies and a range of key stakeholders with an active interest in both networks and continuing professional development. The leaflet draws together and reflects the evidence about the leadership of CPD in networks, exploring the perspectives of the national agencies in a matrix of current leadership programmes. Identifying some of the core challenges and underpinning issues through evidence from three systematic reviews of research, interviews, focus groups and a policy makers seminar. The leaflet identifies some of the key characteristics of effective CPD in networks such as the importance of collaborative CPD, peer support, use of experts and use of professional dialogue. The leaflet provides a framework designed to support school leaders in leading CPD in networked contexts more effectively through providing a breakdown of the different components of network leadership.

Encouraging teachers nationwide to discuss and engage with the Research of the Month (RoM) series

CUREE worked alongside the General Teaching Council’s Engage network to run two events to encourage teachers nationwide to discuss and engage with the Research of the Month (RoM) series. The teachers used the evidence from RoM as a starting point for a completing a stage one Teacher Learning Academy (TLA) presentation.

You can find out more by visiting section 4, Engaging behaviour, of the online version of Teaching: the GTC magazine. If you have a printed copy of the magazine turn to page 8

Teaching and Learning Research Programme - Research Tasters

These short articles link research findings to suggestions for collecting classroom data for reflection and future planning. They cover a range of topics including parental involvement and behaviour. One taster suggests how teachers can collect, then build on evidence about pupils’ contacts with literacy at home to create ideas parents can use with their children. 180 tasters can be accessed now at http://www.tlrp.org/pa/ with many more forthcoming.