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International talk 4 teaching
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Ongoing professional development is key in ensuring that teachers continue to evolve their practice for the benefits of all learners. In taking part in learning, the teacher is also reminded of how learning feels to their students. For our pupils to be enthused, empowered and supported to become life long learners, teaching must evolve to meet their needs and utilise the realities of living in the 21st Century. It is also pertinent that in a time of rapid change, the teaching profession has the opportunity to learn from the established practices of the medical profession: Practice developing from research rather than political whim. It is the intention of the project to look to published text and research from the education profession and through job shadowing in Sweden, identify how these practices are embedded or visible in a differing education system. The impact of cultural differences and similarities may also be evaluated. It is anticipated that the project will support the embedding of the recent developments to teaching and learning in our school and to challenge staff to further evolution of practice. Through taking part, we hope to see the rapid improvement in teaching and learning continued and further accelerated. Participating in the project will support the development of each teacher's skills in classroom practice and their ability to reflect on taking research and putting it into practice. Once written up, we aim to use the work as a model of how educational pedagogy can be evolved with a high impact on the attainment and progress of pupils. The project involves staff engaging in a study group to read set text and research on pedagogical development. Once the group have a shared vocabulary and theory base, a week of job shadowing will occur in Sweden. During the visit, the lead teacher during the visit will chair reflective discussions on teaching and learning in the context of the groups reading. They will identify key developments to their practice in the light of the shadowing and why they feel this will be beneficial to their students at home. Upon their return they will make these changes, evaluate the impact and then write up and share their findings with colleagues across their school, our Cooperative Learning Trust and teachers and school leaders across Devon. This evolution of practice will see the long term improvement of teaching and learning of individuals and institutions alike.
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