Keynote speaker: Michael Day, Executive Director for Training, TDA
Practice improving research: Research as part of continued professional development
Michael Day joined the TDA in 2001 as Director of ITT Quality and Funding. He then moved, for two years, to be Director of Strategy, before taking on his current role of Executive Director. Before joining the TDA, he worked at the Department for Education and Skills for 11 years on a range of education and employment policy areas including special needs, early years and support and guidance to socially excluded young people. Michael Day started his career as a researcher, working at a number of universities on social and economic issues. He later trained as a primary teacher, before moving to King Alfred’s College, Winchester as a Senior Lecturer specialising in primary education.
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Presentation 1: David Godfrey, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning, and Rebecca Rhodes, the Sixth Form College, Farnborough
David Godfrey has worked in the tertiary sector and at Farnborough since 2000, where he started as a Personal Tutor and Psychology teacher. Since September 2006, he have been responsible for action research projects at the College, which includes organising a Hampshire-wide dissemination event and editing an annual in-house research journal. He is also on the PRE editorial panel.
Rebecca Rhodes has been teaching for 11 years and is currently senior curriculum manager of Psychology at Farnborough Sixth form College. She is also an assistant director of the personalised learning team where she is able to fulfil her passions for teaching and assessment for learning.
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Presentation 2: -‘Reflecting on our practice-professional renewal or onerous pressure?’
Dawn Sanders
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Parallel workshops: The use of social software as a teaching and learning and research tool
Matt Walker and Sarah Gregory, NFER
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Parallel workshops: Using Audience Response Systems in schools research
Claire Easton, NFER
Parallel workshops: Who’s knowledge is it anyway?
Warren Kidd, University of East London
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Parallel workshops: Teacher inquiry: considering the strategies
d’Reen Struthers, Roehampton
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Parallel workshops: Educational resources for research (CERUKplus, EEP, TTRB)
Wendy Tury and Alison Lawson, NFER
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Parallel workshops: Enquiry with an impact: the Teacher Learning Academy Interactive session
Keith Hill, GTCE
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Parallel workshops: Using the internet to find research
Emily Houghton and Amanda Harper, NFER
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