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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...

Revisiting the role of case knowledge in teacher development

Teacher knowledge is very much in the foreground of English early career teacher development, as articulated in the Department for Education’s (DfE) Core Content Framework and Early Career...

Decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies and curricular in teacher education: The importance of partnerships between practice and scholarship

BERA’s recent work in supporting research focused on race and education, including the 2021 Small Grants Fund (BERA, 2022), is part of wider initiatives in school and higher education sectors to...

Making connections when teaching mathematics: The role of teacher knowledge and beliefs

Mathematical ideas, concepts or procedures are interconnected; they therefore cannot be understood well in isolation. Mathematical connections made in the classroom give students opportunities to...

Dropping off a cliff: What’s really behind the fall in trainee teacher recruitment?

Graduates are giving teaching the swerve in increasing numbers. The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that recruitment for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses at secondary level is...

Science and religious education teachers’ perspectives on the purpose of RE on the secondary school curriculum in England

It is important that secondary school teachers know about the other subjects that are taught in their schools in order to provide a coherent curriculum experience for students. Over the past...