ResearchEd Durrington - 28.4.18
Over the last few years it has been thoroughly refreshing, absorbing and enthusing to see teachers engaging with research. I have very much been an enthusiastic lurker, reading widely, and learning more and more about the profession. It has been a journey that has improved my teaching, improved student outcomes, and has ensured that I am continually learning. Yesterday, this learning journey took me to Durrington Research School, where I attended my first ResearchEd event alongside a FHES colleague Emma Hockey . The line up was like the Glastonbury of educational minds and inspiration. After an engaging keynote presentation by Professor Daniel Muijs, Director of Research at Ofsted, which focused on how to make sense of research evidence, it was off to listen to four presentations across the day, each 50 minutes in length. However, the difficult choice was selecting which session to go to, with six sessions on in each of the time slots. Decisions, decisions! I deci...