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Who wants to be an academic?

The good… Academic staff are driven by the thrill of creating new knowledge. New knowledge also stimulates the passion that academics bring to teaching their students. When these two things...

Hard Questions: LEARNING TO TEACH CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_TED @BERANews Teaching controversial issues in the classroom is now more urgent and fraught...

Does money motivate teachers?

Labour economists have long been interested in investigating how wages affect worker productivity. Specifically, does paying a worker a higher wage make them work harder, or more productively, in...

Mobilising critique through Twitter: Exploring the ITE sector response during the ITT market review

The initial teacher education (ITE) sector has experienced significant change over the last few years, with the introduction of the core content framework (CCF), the early career framework (ECF)...

Music teachers are curriculum designers

It is fair to say that the model music curriculum has caused quite a stir in music classrooms in England. A national curriculum already exists for music, and while it is only statutory for around...

A moment to breathe: How reflection can reduce teacher maths anxiety

This post explores the need for professional learning development to reduce teacher maths anxiety, and follows up on a recent blog post about reducing pupil maths anxiety. Worldwide demand for...

To EdD or not to EdD: Why is the Doctor of Education programme becoming increasingly popular among educational professionals?

The EdD has become increasingly popular as the route to a doctorate for the educational professional. When we embarked on our own EdDs some years ago there were not too many to choose from; now...

BERA Blog post #1,000

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

It hardly seems possible, six years after its creation of the BERA Blog, that this is its one-thousandth post. The brainchild of BERA CEO Nick Johnson, in 2015 the BB set out to provide...

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

This series celebrates our one-thousandth BERA Blog post by republishing some of our favourites from among the posts that have proven most popular since the blog began in 2015. The collection both...

Supporting teachers who have trained during the pandemic to thrive in their first year of teaching: A guide for secondary schools

Everyone who has worked in schools and in initial teacher education (ITE) will remember 2020–21 as one of significant disruption and challenge, and none more so than those whose professional...

We need to call race by its name in teacher education

The challenge of educating student teachers in taking an anti-racist stance is a constant one. Despite the current worldwide focus on race inequalities, there is always the danger of erasing these...

Considering teacher wellbeing and commitment to teaching in the event of a ‘firebreak’ lockdown this autumn

There are reports that an October lockdown might be used as a ‘firebreak’ if cases of the Covid-19 virus rise too high with the return of schools and universities (Mason & Davis, 2021). As...