CPD | Centre for the Use of Research & Evidence in Education (CUREE)

Lets work together supporting mathematics subject leaders through clustering

Aim: To provide a supportive network for mathematics subject leaders, to develop approaches to teaching mathematics and to share effective strategies and resources between schools.

Conclusions from user feedback on use of learning platform

Aim: A great deal of effort and expense is currently being expended in schools and Local Authorities on Learning Platforms (LPs). This study set out to explore how schools and students are using LPs. The report is intended to help inform readers about how teachers are using LPs and to describe students' experience of one mature installation.

How inclusive are our classrooms?

Aim: Following a recent review of inclusion in the Special Needs Unit at our school, we felt it was appropriate to evaluate aspects of our existing strategies for inclusion. We wanted to discover more about pupils perceptions of their own learning, and their attitudes towards the classroom learning environment and identify features of current practice that supported the effective inclusion of pupils with special educational needs.

Accident or design: To what extent do teachers plan and own their professional learning?

Aim: To examine the extent to which teachers working in special schools have ownership of and are able to plan their professional learning.

Une question de writing?

Aim: To compare approaches to the teaching of writing and handwriting in England and France.

Using drama to improve creative writing

Aim: The aim of the project was to improve our drama teaching and raise the standards of the childrens writing through drama.

The leadership of enquiry: learning internationally

Aim: Research undertaken by the Excellence through Collaboration and Enabling Leadership (EXCEL) networked learning community has focused on the extent to which learning can be enriched and extended by working in a cross-phase, cross-local authority and cross-national context. The key strands running through the research activities generated by EXCEL are pupil voice, internationalism and the creation of a culture of school-based research in which teachers and pupils have been empowered to lead their own learning.

Fostering ability

Aim: To identify more able students, develop teaching methods that encourage them to reach their full potential, and examine whether identifying the more able students enables teachers to be more effective in meeting their needs.

From theory to practice: using an enquiry approach in a network of schools to improve students' self-esteem

Aim: To explore the potential of using common enquiry strategies across a network of schools and to involve pupils in the enquiry process.

Enabling enhanced Mathematics teaching with interacive whiteboards

Aims of the Project: To develop a PD tool that focuses on using interactive whiteboard technology effectively to enhance mathematics teaching To inform and extend previous research into the effective use of interactive technologies in Mathematics classrooms Two key questions focused the discussion and research during the project: What makes an effective resource that stimulates learning when using an interactive whiteboard? How can teachers develop their skills so they can create/use resources of this nature?"