The National Teacher Research Panel was set up about 15 years ago by CUREE supported by a group of national education agencies most of which no longer exist. It had three main goals:
- To ensure that all research in education takes account of the teacher perspective
- To ensure a higher profile for research and evidence informed practice in government, academic and practitioner communities
- To increase the number of teachers engaged in and with the full spectrum of research activity.
Over the several years of its existence, the Panel, supported by its expert advisers in CUREE, has helped and encouraged dozens of teachers and school leaders to do high quality but practical research. The Panel also helped them report their findings succinctly, in plain English and focused on relevance to other practitioners. This is one such example of that work.
Aim: The main aims of the project were:
To investigate the nature of effective learning-centred leadership and its contribution to the creation of teaching and learning schools;
To analyse and describe the practice of learning-centred leadership and its influence upon aspects of the professional practice of others;
To explore school leaders understandings of instructional and interpersonal learning-centred leadership;
To examine the processes involved in creating learning and teaching schools in which such leadership can be developed, supported and sustained;
To investigate and learn from the practice of teachers at the middle level of school leadership in terms of the leadership of teaching and learning within their schools; and
The project also worked within a development framework focused on realising the potential of learning from best practise and theory and from action research.
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