Our goal is to create a world-class school system that ensures every child is taught a broad and ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum by highly skilled teachers, so they can achieve their potential. We need to continue to develop the evidence base around effective teaching practice and curriculum design, with teaching increasingly viewed as an applied science (akin to medicine) where evidence-based approaches are widely utilised, and skilled teachers draw upon expert support and professional communities. We also need to build our understanding of how best to replicate the success of high performing schools, and how school trusts can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their schools, including through management of the school estate. A key part of this is building evidence on the most successful school approaches to improving attendance.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: New York University
The project focuses on developing a classroom observation tool to measure instructional practices and classroom processes, which directly relates to improving teaching quality.
This project aims to consolidate the impact of my PhD through producing publications, developing networks, formulating funding proposals, and improving my research and professional skills. The purposes of my PhD work ar...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
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Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: New York University
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