BELMAS Conference 2014

What are teaching schools for?

Professor Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education, University of Londonwww.ioe.ac.uk @director_ioe

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I began by observing that you cannot find out what a man [sic] means simply by studying his spoken or written statements, even though he has spoken or written with perfect command of language and perfectly truthful intention. In order to find out his meaning you must also know what the question was…to which the thing he has said or written was meant as an answer.

R G Collingwood, 1936, Autobiography

…beyond the Albert Memorial...

1. play a greater role in training new entrants to the profession

2. lead peer-to-peer professional and leadership development

3. identify and develop leadership potential

4. provide support for other schools

5. designate and broker specialist leaders of education (SLEs)

6. Research and development

Teaching Schools….big 6

The world class approach

[‘raise your game or face the consequences’]

Toby Greany’s four narratives of the school-led system

The market based approach

[‘choice and competition’]

The freedom to teach approach

[‘we do trust you’]

The system leadership approach

[‘the strong will lead us upwards’]

1. Consensual – working with the grain of current policy

2. Contentious – “keeping the system honest”

3. Paradigm changing – subverting current thinking and perhaps proposing new principles for action

(based on Nutley, 2011)

Three functions of for innovation

Knowledge mobilisation framework

Campbell and Levin 2012

Find Understand Share Act

Knowledge mobilisation in practice