Faculty of Social Sciences

In the context of the debate about what works and why, there is a wide range of benefits to researching your practice. Researching your own teaching can help you find solutions to particular problems arising in your classroom or school, clarify purposes and priorities when introducing change and develop your agency and self-efficacy within your own school and more widely within the profession.

This Short Course in Becoming a Researching Teacher will equip teachers to ask good research questions, design ethical and valid inquiries and know how to effectively apply their findings to make a difference in their practice.

This 6 hr Short Course will blend taught input with practical ‘gap-tasks’ and opportunities to review practice in light of new learning.

Why not couple this CPD with the ERPN Short Course in Unpacking Education Research which equips teachers and leaders to critically assess research findings and evidence from a range of sources.

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Effective teachers are the bedrock of any school or college. It is critical to retain those teachers through embedding effective professional learning right from the start of their careers.

This Short Course- designed for ECT and CPD Coordinators- equips you to design, implement and review your professional development provision by drawing on the principles of our research-evidenced Toolkit. Whilst designed to complement the ITTECF, this Toolkit provides research informed strategies to create an effective professional learning environment for all teachers to thrive.

This 12 hr Short Course is designed to span an academic year and is delivered through a blend of in-person, recorded materials and synchronous online webinars. An optional Impact Showcase at the end of the Short Course offers an opportunity for ECT/CPD Coordinators to explore their outcomes and that of other Coordinators.

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What is Education research and what makes it different to other types of research?
How do we know what’s worth reading?
Criticality in research- how do we know what makes a difference?

Education research can play an important role in enhancing teaching and informing professional learning in schools. However, relatively few teachers are actually using research evidence in their practice (Howard-Jones, 2024). There are practical obstacles for teachers including a lack of time or access to high quality education research as well as recognising what is worth reading and applying to their practice.

This Short Course in Unpacking Education Research equips teachers and school leaders with core skills in research literacy to be able to locate, access and be critical about the education research they consume and how to use this in their practice.

This 6 hr Short Course will blend taught input with practical ‘gap-tasks’ and opportunities to review practice in light of new learning.

Why not follow this CPD with the ERPN Short Course in Becoming a Researching Teacher, which equips teachers and leaders to design and conduct practitioner research!

Further information can be found on our WEBSITE

Payment using the Online Store can only be completed via Visa and Mastercard Credit/Debit Card or PayPal. 
If you have not previously created an account for the Online Store, you will need to create an account to make a payment.

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