The Evidence People
Philippa's presentation at the Hallam Festival of Education on 14th June 2019
Her presentation set out the evidence underpinning effective mentoring. She described the characteristics of good mentoring and supported this with examples through videos and activities.
Research and evidence based capacity building in disadvantaged communities
Presentation by Philippa Cordingley drawing on emerging lessons from two projects In Blackpol (with Right to Succeed) and North Wales (with GWE)
On the 21st June Philippa Cordingley presented at the Developing Great Teachers Conference in Cardiff, drawing on CUREE's extensive work with mentoring and coaching and the international evidence behind effective CPDL in 'CPDL that works for pupils as well as teachers; evidence based tools for embedding high-quality coaching'
Find out more about Effective Mentoring and Coaching here, or by getting in touch at gillian.sheail@curee.co.uk
The first of the new 'Insight' series from the Centre for Skills Development at City & Guilds, this publication focuses on the practice and theory of coaching in vocation settings. It features a number of chapters by different authors and an introduction and overview by Kathleen Collett of CDC. Chapter Two,written by staff at CUREE, draws together material from interviews of 17 'users' of coaching in educational and work settings and from the massive research evidence analysed by CUREE over 15 years. The chapter concludes with some suggestions for FE practitioners about how the findings might be put to practical use.
Other chapters examine coaching and pedagogy, coaching and assessment, coaching in support of high level vocational skills and coaching in teacher education.
I simply can’t remember a summer as wet as this. Looking on the bright side perhaps it means students with hay fever had an easier exam time? It also makes weeding easier as I discovered last weekend after 6 weekends “on the road “ – a mix of work and festivities. But that’s it for the up side - so I am sharing a photo from a very sunny weekend in the Italian Alps to remind you what the sun looks like. Last time I was there in June it was snowing!
Summer CPD – a case study
CUREE was commissioned by TDA to undertake a short scoping study on patterns of participation of black and minority ethnic (BME) teachers and teachers with disabilities in Post-graduate Professional Development (PPD) programmes. These reports are the result of the first year of this project.
The 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.
