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Educators’ approach to ‘silence’ and ‘listening differently’

Introduction Educators, at times, encounter situations when they ask students questions after teaching, only to be met with silence, or when they assign group exercises or activities and students...

Reconstructing student teachers’ classroom management learning processes

It is widely known that early career teachers experience problems caused by the gap between the focus on theory in teacher education and the practical orientation at internship schools and in...

Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and pedagogic quality

Do satisfied teachers teach more effectively than their less satisfied colleagues? Although previous research has investigated the factors which lead to teachers being more satisfied with their...

Summer 2023

Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination

Elaine Sharpling

I am currently the Director of Education Research and Enquiry at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. The move to this relatively new position was made after being the Director of Initial...

The teacher recruitment freefall: Opening the parachute requires us to understand our prospective teachers better

In their BERA Blog post ‘Dropping off a cliff’ Innes et al. (2023) break down four areas of policy which they suggest are the ‘real driver’ of frighteningly low teacher training...

Beyond performance: Increasing teacher capabilities through a distributed leadership coaching model

When academics talk about coaching in schools, often the focus is on teachers’ and pupils’ performance (Knight, 2007; Bresser & Wilson, 2010). While there are laudable achievements of peer...

Teacher Education and Development SIG Vacancies 2023-2026

Call for SIG Convenor The group covers research in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and teachers' careers. The aims of the Teacher Education and Development SIG...

Exploring open approaches to digital literacy

The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...

Preparing children for the future: Robot programming in early childhood education

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

The field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...

Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson is a Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Sarah taught high school English, social subjects and special education, and was also a Fulbright...

SIG Forum Meeting – Teacher Education and Development

This TED SIG AGM will be reflecting upon challenges over these last few years and possible ways forward. The convenors would be delighted to hear from any members who would like to lead or...