Continuous professional development (CPD) is an important part of teaching. It keeps teachers engaged, motivated and up-to-date with new teaching methods. But what’s the best way to implement CPD? A ‘check-in’ chat over tea and biscuits during break time is a valued experience, but successful CPD requires much more than that. Here we look at […]
Closing the gaps: Focusing on teacher performance to improve attainment post-Covid The Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous effect on education, teacher performance and, in particular, pupils’ learning. As all senior leaders will know, school staff are now having to redouble their efforts to minimise the negative consequences. “Schools have worked tirelessly to limit the […]
A Principal’s View of Reflective Practice Only 55% of Teachers feel supported in their work, according to TES. In this video, we explore how reflective practice can help to focus on areas for improvement and so achieve better outcomes for students.
Reflecting to improve: How one teacher transformed their classroom management with the support of a mentor When Katy*, a secondary schoolteacher, was given a low grade for the first time in a lesson observation, she was devastated. But, thanks to some helpful mentoring from her colleague, Chris*, and the use of reflective teaching and classroom […]
Make Reflective Teaching a cultural thing in your school Some more thoughts from Selwyn Thompson, Duke’s Secondary School, Northumberland Church of England Academy Trust. He talks about how ReflectiveTeacher supports schools in making reflective practice a cultural thing. I think another thing about the reflective teacher as a, as an app, as a series of processes […]
When Selwyn Thompson, from Duke’s Secondary School in Ashington dropped by our stand last week at #SaaShow21, we asked him to share his thoughts on Reflective Teacher and how it is supporting reflective practise