The Evidence People
Philippa presented a key note at this year’s annual Gothenburg University’s Centre for Educational Sciences and Teacher Research’s conference in Sweden – a national event drawing on the University’s teaching graduates using research as a tool to assist in school development.
"Over the next five years implementing the curriculum, assessment and qualification reforms will present significant challenges to teaching and learning. Schools will need to:
So says the Guidance Paper recently published by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) - with CUREE and TDT – setting out why its members should be as aspirational about the development of their professional colleagues as they already are for their students
Launched on 9th June at the House of Commons, this new report builds on earlier work identifying even more clearly how, and under what conditions, teachers' professional development and learning benefits pupils and students.
CUREE is pleased to present its response to this very important and timely consultation. Our responses draw on evidence from the numerous systematic reviews of the international evidence that we have been involved in including:
- a forthcoming, systematic umbrella review updating the CPD evidence commissioned by the Teacher Development Trust and carried out by CUREE with Durham university and the UCL Institute of Education, London
- Our systematic review of the evidence about practitioner use of research http://bit.ly/1Eq6kXb
- Evidence from the New Zealand Best Evidence Syntheses on CPD and on leadership http://bit.ly/1pHbtBL, http://bit.ly/1ECtF8m
- Evidence from our national evaluations of the quality of CPD provision and the former Post Graduate Development Programme
- Evidence from our extensive work with schools in evaluating how effectively they are connecting teacher and pupil learning
- Evidence from our study of Exceptional and Strong Schools for Teach First http://bit.ly/1hi4OLS
As a follow-up to CUREE's work with Teach First on the High-Performing Schools project, we are now beginning work on a new project with Teach First to evaluate factors which influence a school's developmental progress over time.
Paul Crisp, CUREE's managing director, attended a Round Table event convened by NAHT earlier this month. The report published by NAHT (http://www.naht.org.uk/) is the result of a Round Table debate with a panel of CPD experts to discuss the issues.
