Issue 23.2

Where Have All The Teachers Gone? Is ‘Teach First’ To Blame?

Sonia Blandford gives an authoritative critique of the Teach First initiative and how its early promise gave way to a fall in quality provision, a crisis in recruitment and the marginalisation of university contributions to teacher training.

• 25 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Professional Development Today Volume 23 Issue 2 Contents

• 12 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Professional Development Today 23.2 Cover

The front cover of Professional Development Today - Issue 23.2!

• 12 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Creative Collaboration: Professional Learning In And Through The Arts

Steven Berryman champions the professional development needs of Arts and Music teachers and shows how teachers-led networks are crucial to this

• 5 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Networks As Professional Learning Spaces For Teachers

Networks and networking have become spaces for teacher learning and development, especially in sectors of education that have not historically been prioritized within broader educational policy and government funding. Lorraine Godden and Alexandra Youmans explain how in one region of Canada, networking and networks responded to the professional learning needs of adult educators during the Covid-19 pandemic

• 5 Oct 2023
• 24mins

The Power Of Teacher Research Groups

Daniel Langley shows how Teacher Research Groups, within schools and in broader networks, have proved to be a potent way of enhancing teacher professionalism during the pandemic and beyond

• 5 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Teacher Identity And Early Career Teachers

Chris Bolton shows how a networked Theatre in Education approach helped to support Early Career Teachers and foster their teacher identity

• 5 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Teacher Identity And Professional Development

Suzie Dick, Helen Burns, Louise McGlynn and Stephanie Peat explore issues of teacher identity within the context of the Scottish Islands Schools Network and the implications for professional development

• 5 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Creating A Virtual Learning Staffroom

Haili Hughes describes the dynamic and organic CPD conversations with colleagues conducted at a distance and asks what does this mean for the future of teacher development?

• 5 Oct 2023
• 24mins

Leadership Of The Head, Heart And Hand

Ellie Lister and Sarah Seleznyov provide an insight into how Big Education, a Multi-Academy Trust, is rethinking practice in schools to ensure more young people receive a holistic education. They describe how their innovative leadership development programme motivates and supports leaders to make this change within their own schools and across the UK education system.

• 5 Oct 2023
• 24mins