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CUREE Newsletter February 2012

Philippa’s Blog

SnowdropsThe longer days and snowdrops are telling me that we are on our way out of winter’s gloom –even if the colder weather feels more wintry.

I started the year alongside teachers and researchers from 50 countries across the world at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) annual conference in Malmo. It was amazing to meet senior colleagues from schools in Northumberland and Bristol alongside researchers and school leaders from Chile and Malaysia! It was also exciting to learn that people from 5 different countries were so excited by my presentation about research route maps (www.curee.co.uk/products-and-services-overview/research-sat-nav) that they decided there and then to start to import them! I kept coming across people poring  over them in coffee breaks and asking different questions about visuals, translation etc. 

Finding the Golden Thread - accommodating creativity and innnovation in the curriculum

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http://www.teachingexpertise.com/publications/curriculum-briefing-199
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Philippa Cordingley offers six core principles for crafting a creative curriculum to provide an agenda for action you can take to embed creativity in all subject areas in your own school, using case examples throughout to show how schools have used this as a framework for innovation

Making confident CPD choices through understanding professional learners

This article looks at research evidence about the characteristics of effective professional learning, and the skills of professional learners. It also explains how to make the most of learning opportunities within the school. By developing your own understanding of professional learning and learners, you can become more confident about the choices you have to make with limited resources.

The full article can be accessed here.

The role of professional learning in determining the profession's future

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This paper supports and expands on the presentation made by Philippa Cordingley to the international invitation seminar on the Future of the Teaching Profession held at Churchill College Cambridge on 16/17th February 2012.The event was sponsored by OECD and Education International

It focuses on the nature and role of teacher professional learning in shaping the future of the profession. It offers insights from six systematic and technical reviews of the evidence about Continuing Professional Learning and Development and extensive research and evaluation focussed on the impact of such activity on teachers and pupils and the effectiveness of school as learning environments for them both.

Swansea Tasters

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The Future of the Mentoring and Coaching Resources now on the TDA 'Extranet'

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As part of the ongoing 'rationalisation' of TDA functions and services, the decision has been taken to shut down the Mentoring and Coaching Extranet. TDA now redirects all queries about this to CUREE. You might be here because you have followed that link.

The Extranet housed the resources developed to support the National Mentoring and Coaching Framework developed by CUREE and commissioned by the Department for Education (not it's name at the time). The resources included live video clips of mentoring and coaching dialogues, enquiry tools, guides, case studies and summaries of the related research. We are evaluating the possibility of making some or all of these resources available from the CUREE website but there are some technical issues to explore and overcome before we can do this.