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The National Teacher Research Panel is hosting its 4th biennial Conference in November 2008 in partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council Teaching and Learning Research Programme who will be celebrating the six years of school sector work through this joint event to be held in the prestigious QEII conference centre in London. This free event will provide a forum for teachers and school leaders, professional researchers and local and national policy makers to learn together from the best practitioner research in the system. The conference represents a unique opportunity to examine key issues emerging from rigorous practitioner enquiry over the previous 2 years and has established a reputation for innovation and high quality. Delegates will be able to visit various workshops led by practitioner-researchers, exhibitions and an interactive zone including a ‘research into practice’ wall and a ‘meet the researcher’ corner.

Designed by experts and road tested every inch of the way by teachers, this inspirational six-pack series will transform your approach to mentoring and coaching. As CPD co-ordinators you will fi nd the packs an invaluable resource. They will help you enthuse and inspire colleagues and equip them with the skills they need for professional learning - to develop their practice, to enhance their subject expertise – or to tackle those tricky learning or behavioural problems in their classrooms. It will also help your school, because you will be building mentoring and coaching skills amongst your colleagues. This will help the school keep up to date with new initiatives such as performance management, and develop a successfully tried and tested approach to school improvement through changes which aren’t forced. You’ll find the six Effective Mentoring and Coaching packs full of ideas for building ownership through collaboration and encouraging teachers to interpret and adapt new approaches for their own particular pupils or subject.

Look for the first 6 modular, interactive units of a suite of learning resources for CPD facilitators and co-ordinators working with groups of colleagues.  The resources centre on animated presentations of a series of common problems and practical tools for resolving them.