*I originally created these posts for the micro-blogging education site Staffrm, which shut down mid-2017. I wanted to re-share these early forays into the blogging world but have not edited any of these posts from their original form. *
#educationresearch Over the past few month, primarily through my experiences on Twitter (@educatingholmes), I have become increasingly interested in the role research has to play in education and the extent to which teachers can be active and engaged leaders of research rather than passive practitioners who have research ‘done to them’. Last Thursday I had the privilege of attending my first @researchED1 event (www.workingoutwhatworks.com), hosted by the London Connected Learning Centre. The event was aimed as a ‘starting point for schools and educators who want to find out what they can do, and how they can get involved’ with a short programme of speakers delivering a taste of how to get involved. Whilst much of the event was aimed at a school leadership level, centred on how your school as a whole can become more research engaged, there was much to whet the appetite of the classroom teacher. Time will continue to be perhaps the biggest constraint on teachers’ ability to engage in research but the first step on any path will be the most difficult. Whether it’s picking up a book (my Amazon wish list is filled to the brim with recommendations), taking part in more twitter discussions or attending conferences to start finding out what really does work; I know I want to become more research engaged. Oliver Quinlan (@oliverquinlan) has blogged some excellent summaries of the four main speakers for the day which you can read here: Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick): http://www.oliverquinlan.com/liveblogs/?p=1148 Jon Brunskill (@jon_brunskill): http://www.oliverquinlan.com/liveblogs/?p=1150 Kate Atkins (@kateatkins33): http://www.oliverquinlan.com/liveblogs/?p=1152 Matt Walker (@TheNFER): http://www.oliverquinlan.com/liveblogs/?p=1154 If you have the time, I’d thoroughly recommend watching the talks in full yourself: https://plus.google.com/events/cmsg2gghm4topvqsunpn6d3ichc. My thanks go to all the speakers above, plus organisers @tombennett71 and @s_horrox. In particular I must thank Jon Brunskill, who is proving you don’t have to have been a teacher for decades to become research engaged. Key questions that stick out in my mind from the event:
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