The Evidence People
As part of the Lab Sites programme, practitioners try new approaches to teaching on learning, drawing on the evidence. To read more about Lab Sites, click here.
As part of the Lab Sites programme, practitioners try new approaches to teaching on learning, drawing on the evidence. To read more about Lab Sites, click here.
As part of the Lab Sites programme, practitioners try new approaches to teaching on learning, drawing on the evidence. To read more about Lab Sites, click here.
We were delighted to deliver a workshop at the Challenge Partners Summer Conference 2013. Click here to see Philippa’s presentation
Click here to view Philippa's keynote at the Research Alive conference 2013.
Closing the Gap: Test and Learn is a new scheme from the National College of Teaching and Leadership providing grants for schools and teachers to get involved in rigorous research. The goal is to help improve the evidence-base for what works in closing the attainment gap (CTG) for disadvantaged pupils and also to stimulate robust research and development in schools. The scheme should also strengthen relationships between schools and higher education institutions.
These two mini-enquiry tools help school leaders and practitioners gather and use evidence of teaching and learning practice in the classroom and/or school.
The 'Observing Others' tool helps middle and senior leaders structure lesson (and other practice) observation to serve an R& D purpose rather than, say , performance management.
The other Tool is an introduction to a group of research 'tasters' covering a wide range of evidence based teaching and learning topics.
The first of the new 'Insight' series from the Centre for Skills Development at City & Guilds, this publication focuses on the practice and theory of coaching in vocation settings. It features a number of chapters by different authors and an introduction and overview by Kathleen Collett of CDC. Chapter Two,written by staff at CUREE, draws together material from interviews of 17 'users' of coaching in educational and work settings and from the massive research evidence analysed by CUREE over 15 years. The chapter concludes with some suggestions for FE practitioners about how the findings might be put to practical use.
Other chapters examine coaching and pedagogy, coaching and assessment, coaching in support of high level vocational skills and coaching in teacher education.
The Australian federal Government have recently launched their first ever set of national Professional Standards for the profession. The standards themselves link performance management with an entitlement to professional learning thus embedding a link between formative evaluation, CPD and capacity building.
