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Issue 12.3
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Issue 12. 3
How to make every lesson outstanding
- Description:
- How can teachers make their teaching more creative and inspiring? Marcella McCarthy gives practical guidance on how they can overcome doubt and reticence to make every lesson special.
- Submitted On:
- 22/11/2009
Ensuring effective feedback for focussed CPD
- Description:
- Peter Taylor provides practical guidance on giving feedback to staff on classroom practice and shows how this can form an integral part of teacher professional development.
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- 22/11/2009
Active Enquiring Minds: empowering young researchers
- Description:
- The research of children and young people is not only vital to learning but also makes a fundamental contribution to school self-evaluation. Graham Handscomb and Ros Frost describe the research and development processs through which “Active Enquiring Minds”, a resource to equip young researchers and the adults who support them, was developed.
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- 22/11/2009
Using a Development and Research Approach to tackle bullying
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- How can development lead research to bring about improvement? Mark Rickinson and Andrew Morris show how combining research rigor and practical development had positive impact on anti-bullying strategies.
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- 22/11/2009
Improving Teaching and Learning
- Description:
- Graham Handscomb shows how professional development is fundamentally about learning - improving the learning of children and learning alongside them.
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- 22/11/2009
Engagement in School-based Collaborative Enquiry
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- Sveta Mayer reports on a programme which fosters collaborative enquiry and has led to teachers taking greater ownership of their professional development.
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- 22/11/2009
Imagination in Education: the work of Kieran Egan
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- Sue Lyle introduces the ideas of Kieran Egan, one of the world’s foremost thinkers on imaginative education, and considers the implications of his ideas for professional development.
- Submitted On:
- 22/11/2009
How to engage teachers in action learning sets?
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- Tracey O’Brien gives tips on how to develop collaborative learning amongst one’s colleagues.
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- 22/11/2009
Pupil power and professional development
- Description:
- Andy Markwick and Mike Davies describe how the development of student 'voice' at their school is beginning to change approaches to teacher development.
- Submitted On:
- 22/11/2009
How to grow classroom-based practitioner enquiry & research
- Description:
- Tom Carter and his school colleagues, Stephen Ham, Doug Johnson, Janet Pearson, Frederique Midroit, Emma Barton and David Greenwood, provide practitioner insights into how to go about classroom-based research.
- Submitted On:
- 22/11/2009
