Governance - of schools and education systems
guidance_paper_leadership_of_professional_development_and_learning_12830.pdf The Evidence People
Leadership
Leadership of Professional Development and Learning
"Over the next five years implementing the curriculum, assessment and qualification reforms will present significant challenges to teaching and learning. Schools will need to:
- develop teacher capability to deliver reformed GCSEs and A levels, including a focus on preparing pupils
- for the new style of examinations
- develop teachers’ ability to undertake assessment that evidences pupil progress in learning
- build capacity in middle and senior leadership related to curriculum design and development"
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
Local Leadership of Education and Training
Files:
Getting with the Zeitgeist – devolution and the leadership of education
Four FE colleges in different parts of England explored strategies for leading the local education system in preparation for greater devolution to city regions following the model started in Greater Manchester. Through the lens of various leadership methodologies (but particularly Design Thinking) our college leaders worked with key stakeholders to flag the opportunities, the challenges and some ways forward
FE and Skills Strategy and Leadership
Strategy and Leadership
Here are some of the recent ways in which CUREE has drawn on research and evidence from practice to support the development of strategy and leadership in the sector
Developing Great Teaching - new report on effective teachers professional development
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 E-news May 2015 Election Edition
CUREE E-NEWS MAY 2015 (Election) Edition
A World Class Teaching Profession
Files:
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
Understanding What Enables High Quality Professional Learning
Files:
This report draws on a range of published research and other evidence to address the question “what are the characteristics of high quality professional learning for practitioners in education?” Our main interest is in the features of professional learning, for teachers and their leaders, which lead to benefits for their pupils and students but we also looked at the quality of the experiences for the teachers and leaders themselves. In addition, we examined the literature for evidence about the relative merits of professional learning delivered by direct, face-to-face methods in comparison to distance/online learning approaches