Hélène's Doctoral thesis analyses teachers’ emotional responses to inspection and how they differ according to their setting - state or independent sector?
Bespoke research within your own setting can be key to the success of your school. With experience of researching within the state and independent sector; at Primary and Secondary schools, from Masters to doctoral research projects, we can help your school to grow, effecting successful change. Areas researched include: the impact of inspection on teachers - Ofsted and ISI; effective use of teaching assistants; peer teaching; various aspects of assessment; AG&T provision; writing and implementing effective policy; team teaching; leading and managing change in schools. Research can enhance your school, and we can undertake that research for you.
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Some research Findings:
There is a strong sense of working together to develop schools at all levels, with this being a two-way process, epitomised by the phrases, “seek out good practice and promote innovation.” and “disseminate good practice” Education Scotland (2011, p.2). It is this proactive, two-way approach that clearly shows the Scottish framework to have constructed a purpose of collaborative leadership.
For TAs to be led and managed effectively there does, ideally, need to be time set aside for dialogue as communication is essential to effective leadership and management.
Finally, it is also vital, as implied by the idea of a moral purpose, that the pupils remain integral to the whole process. Policy in education is about providing what is best for the pupils, thus research and modelling of good practice are crucial. It is also ideal to include pupils and their parents, if possible, at key stages in the process so that their perspectives can be considered when devising policy
