Fifteen years ago I watched David Brent give this masterclass in motivation. This was before I started teaching, and when I entered the profession I was horrified to learn that this kind of stuff appeared to be embedded in so much of education from the Monday morning assembly to the top-down CPD session. I remember attending a…
One thing that has always baffled me is how school leaders have marginalised staff involved in research or practitioner inquiry. If a teacher wants to do an MA or PhD in an area related to their own professional development, they are often given little or no financial or time support. Certainly research has not been…
Rob Coe is Professor in the School of Education and Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), Durham University. He is also co-author of the Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit.
In October I went to visit Glen Whitman at St. Andrew’s School near Washington. He is the Dean of Studies there but is also a force of nature who runs an in-house research centre that has completely transformed the culture of the school. I asked him how he did it. For more on Glenn…
It’s very interesting that when you you talk to people about Hattie’s work, a lot of people seem unsure about what it is or what “Visible Learning” actually means. I thought it might be good to ask him.
In 1817 John Keats wrote a letter to his brother in which he detailed for the first time the phrase ‘Negative Capability,” which refers to the capacity to hold two seemingly opposite positions in equal measure without trying to reconcile or privilege either one: “..at once it struck me what quality went to form a…
Yesterday I had the most surreal experience of my career. I found myself sitting in a circle with some of the most influential people in the field discussing the role of research lead or research “champion.” (name change needed) Among those encircled in the chapel at Raines Foundation were Dylan William, Rob Coe, Tom Sherrington, Alex Quigley,…
Why every school needs a research champion Why every school needs a research champion. By Carl Hendrick, Head of Learning and Research, Wellington College For too long the classroom practitioner has been the researched as opposed to the researcher. Teachers have been given answers to questions they didn’t ask, provided with solutions to…