Mairead Davidson
Mairead is the Northern Ireland Rep for the BERA Teacher Education SIG.
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Exploring early years degrees and graduate employment outcomes
Degree-qualified practitioners contribute to the quality of early years education and improve children’s outcomes. However, little is known about the content and structure of early years...
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Rethinking class size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning
The enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...
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Reimaging mentoring and coaching for teacher trainees and newly qualified teachers post-Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic affected the development of initial teacher trainees (ITT) and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) in a variety of different ways. Teacher educators had to think of new ways to...
Continue reading blog postMaking the case for integrating sustainable development in the university language classroom
Many teachers and researchers reading this may be asking themselves: what is sustainable development (SD) and why should I care about it? Here I offer insights on the following three areas: what...
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Does breaking up a video into parts improve learning?
With Covid-19 pushing video deeper into our pandemic-affected classrooms, studying multimedia design has taken on a new urgency. My recent article in the British Journal of Educational Technology...
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Teacher Education and Development – SIG Convenor vacancy
Call for SIG Convenor Northern Ireland Representative only The group covers research in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and teachers’ careers. More...
Is placing beginning teachers into challenging schools actually supporting school improvement, or is it jeopardising our future teachers?
The University of Exeter was selected to take part in the ‘Expanding ITE’ project, in which the Department for Education’s (DfE) aim was to ‘support our best teacher trainer providers ......
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How could coaching and mentoring be re-imagined by teacher educators to support Initial Teacher Trainees (ITTs) and Early Career Teachers (ECT) in the new normal returning to schools during Covid-19?
Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #TeacherEd&Development Online event – pre-registration essential With Covid -19, education...
Anti-racist mathematics teacher education
On 28 August 2020 thousands marched through Washington DC to mark the 57th anniversary of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jr. My research interests include anti-racism...
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The uncomfortable and destabilising realities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students on an initial teacher education course
As a major provider of teacher education in the north west of England, we want to develop inclusive and anti-racist practices that will allow us to provide the best possible quality of experience...
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Situated professionalism and its influence on the university–school divide within initial teacher education
‘Would you do that in school?’ A question familiar to anyone who trains new teachers, but one without an easy answer. There often appears to be a divide between what trainees view as...
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