Education & Teaching at Newcastle University

We would like to invite you to our latest seminar by Prof Mark Priestley talking about 'Teacher agency: what it is and why does it matter?' http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/news/events/item/teacheragencywhatisitandwhydoesitmatter.html

Events Items - Education, Communication and Language Sciences - Newcastle University The concept of teacher agency has emerged in recent literature as an alternative means of understanding how teachers might enact practice and engage with policy (e.g. Lasky, 2005; Leander & Osbourne, 2008; Ketelaar et al., 2012; Priestley, Biesta & Robinson, 2015). But what is agency? Agency remains...

Blog by, Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith is Research Excellence Academy Fellow in the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching.

Discourses of Ability We Live By In some of my work I’ve argued that unless we engage more with progressive conceptualisations of academic ability overall, the concept will, by default, continue to be overly-determined by a narrowly-conceived measure of particular cognitive skills (

Blog from former MEd in Practitioner Enquiry student, Anne Clough.

The Politics of the Canon: An exploration of the factors influencing teachers’ text choices for the new GCSE specification in English Literature The Politics of the Canon: An exploration of the factors influencing teachers’ text choices for the new GCSE specification in English Literature

Translanguaging Pedagogy: writing across languages ROMtels, an Erasmus+ funded project, has produced a series of guidance books for teachers and teacher educators, which includes guidance on promoting a translanguaging pedagogy.

TED Talks: What's In A Name? A feature on TED Prize highlights Professor Sugata Mitra’s project, which won the $1 million prize.

Entrepreneurial Competences for School Leadership Teams Sue Robson, Rene Koglbauer, Ulrike Thomas and Anna Reid from CfLAT and North Leadership Centre, Newcastle University, led an Erasmus+ project ‘Entrepreneurial Competences for School Leadership Teams’ (2014-2016). The project aimed to identify successful entrepreneurial competences from the business…

Newcastle University ranked top 10 in the UK for student experience Newcastle University is ranked in the top 10 for student experience in the UK for the third year in a row, according to latest survey results.

Read our new paper about schooling and poverty in Tanzania

The effects of schooling, family and poverty on children’s attainment, potential and confidence—Evidence from Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania In general school and teacher factors have a negative affect on children’s self confidence and their positive attitude to learning;.

Blog from Dr Rachel Lofthouse:

Improving Mentoring Practices through Collaborative Conversations

Democracy through Pedagogy: the Mantle of the Expert in Initial Teacher Education In his powerful speech at the Cambridge Primary Review Trust’s (CPRT) conference in November last year, Robin Alexander suggested, in relation to recent electoral outcomes in the UK and the US, that discourses of hatred and derision might be..

Standards in ITT mentoring: there to be embraced Ever worked with a teacher trainee mentor who is not up for it? Or, even worse, is not up to it? They might be the colleague with a light timetable that year, or who is looking for professional experience at the cost of their mentee’s development

CfLaT Newsletter – January 2017 | Education Rachel Lofthouse was invited to give a key-note at the annual UCET Conference in November 2016. Her theme was ‘“I’ll get by with a little help from my friends”: opportunities for collaborative teacher learning in Initial Teach-er Education and beyond’. She drew on a number of CfLaT projects and init...