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December 2010 Newsletter

In this issue:

  • The latest research in CPD
  • Is your curriculum ready for the challenges ahead?
  • The future of teaching; Responsibility or Regulation?
  • In other news

Welcome to the CUREE Christmas Newsletter

You are all no doubt all busy with Nativity plays, Stars in Your Eyes competitions, reading the hundreds of analyses of the White Paper etc while trying to find a few moments to make preparations for your own Christmas celebration.

The latest research on CPD

This page provides a very high level summary and overview drawn from three recent studies containing evidence about effective CPD which has a positive impact on student learning.  These were then source materials discussed at the December invitation seminar  held at CUREE and featuring presentations from:

  • Philippa Cordingley – Chief Executive CUREE;
  • Miranda Bell – Associate Director CUREE
  • Helen Timperley – Professor of Education University of Auckland

Some of the key messages from Philippa Cordingley’s analysis were:

October 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

  • Finding your way to resources
  • A unique opportunity to explore the very latest research into CPD
  • Enlivening mentoring for new teachers
  • Relaunch of Inside Evidence – the research resource for the Learning and Skills Sector
  • In other news

Welcome to the CUREE Newsletter

Summer seems to have flown by.  For CUREE colleagues summer and early autumn involved intense work on finalising our 3 year project for QCDA on Building the Evidence Base for a curriculum for the 21st Century.  We have highlighted some of our very pra