Teacher Education and Development SIG Convenor Vacancy
Call for SIG Convenor - England representative The group covers research in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and teachers’ careers. The aims of the Teacher...
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Post-truth teachers
Teaching is values-based and complex. While theory and research within the field of education is contested, we require high-quality teachers who exercise professional judgement in deciding what...
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Climate change education: What do we know about the sources of information teachers are using?
Teachers can access a huge amount of information. The quantities are so vast they’re hard to comprehend. On a daily basis, more than 3.5 billion Google searches are conducted, more than 3.3...
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Mentoring the supervising teachers for effective development of pre-service teachers’ assessment literacy
The strong partnership between initial teacher education (ITE) providers and schools ensures that pre-service teachers (PSTs) can further develop practical skills during their practicum. One of...
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Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education
In the movie satire Don’t Look Up, a deadly comet threatens to hit earth. Two astronomers recognise the impending disaster, but their warnings remain unheeded. The US President, experts and the...
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2021/22 experiences of academics in teacher education: ‘I should not be afraid in my job, but I am’
This blog post briefly explores some initial findings from a study on the experiences of academics working partly or fully in initial teacher education (ITE) in the UK, and particularly their...
Continue reading blog postExploring the needs of Early Career Teachers through the Early Career Framework 21.06.22-23.06.22
The Early Career Framework (ECF), a system of mandatory CPD introduced to all English schools in September 2021. The ECF is part of the Department for Education’s Recruitment and Retention...
‘Challenging’ reflexivity in the transition between practicums: A practical and gamified approach to embed ‘big ideas’ into the teacher education curriculum
Like all teacher educators in England, we are conscious that our practice is increasingly located in turbulent and changing political and managerial landscapes for teacher education (see Murtagh &...
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‘Shut up and leave me alone’: Why schools need to be places of belonging
‘Shut up and leave me alone’ were the only words that 10-year-old refugee ‘Aisha’ could find to say in English after three weeks in her school. She was the outsider who didn’t...
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Hard questions: Learning to teach controversial issues
Teachers and teacher educators often find it difficult to explore controversial issues in their classrooms, especially in politically fraught times. Controversial issues are defined as open...
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School leadership in a time of Covid: Learning to cope with the system changes
It is indisputable that there are huge costs associated with Covid-19, and part of that has fallen to schools, school trusts (formerly known as multi-academy trusts) and local...
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An exploration of the contribution that teacher education (as a sub‐discipline) makes to higher education institutions
Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_TED @BERANews Teacher education in UK higher education (HE) exists in a contested and...
