1st Edition

Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Enquiry

Edited By Alison Fox Copyright 2020
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Evidence-based teaching is fast becoming a new orthodoxy.  There are many strong voices, including policy voices, advocating its adoption. Understanding the underlying principles allows you to better evaluate the benefits of different approaches to evidence-based teaching and how they relate to your own school context. This book provides a critical overview of different ways of thinking about... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Mapping the language of collaboration and enquiry

Chapter 3: School-university partnerships: contexts for enquiry

Chapter 4: Teacher-led enquiry

Chapter 5: Lesson study as evidence-based teacher collaboration and enquiry

Chapter 6: Leading professional learning communities: opportunities and challenges

Chapter 7: Teachers’ access to and use of evidence

Chapter 8: Conclusions and take-aways

References

Index

Biography

Val Poultney is an experienced teacher educator who has worked in partnership with a number of schools, specialising in evidence-based teaching. She is particularly interested in school leadership and school governance, with a focus on how to develop leadership to support teachers as researchers. Currently a senior lecturer at the University of Derby, she teaches on both initial teacher education and postgraduate programmes. 

Alison Fox is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University, UK. After training as a secondary school science teacher, Alison moved into initial teacher training and undertook research around the support of beginning teachers, including their emergent development as school leaders. She also supports practitioner enquiry through  Masters and Doctoral supervision.