Author: Edited by Dr David Leat & Dr Kate Wall
Many schools now have teaching and learning coordinators and teaching and learning groups who are tasked with keeping ahead of developments and to facilitate innovation, enquiry and evaluation into teaching and learning across the school. If you’re one of the many professionals faced with this task, you will be interested in Learning & Teaching Update, edited by Dr David Leat and Dr Kate Wall.
Concise and practical, Learning & Teaching Update is designed to specifically meet the needs of those involved with managing the teaching and learning programme in schools. It is a practical and accessible work tool, which draws on the latest professional research, and best practice in schools, to help you improve your school's teaching and learning.
Learning & Teaching Update is a 12-page newsletter aimed at keeping schools in touch with developing teaching and learning practice. It provides an evidence- and school-based approach to teaching and learning, and it shares innovations within policy and practice of schools across the UK.
Published 10 times a year, each issue will cover important topics such as learning to learn, learning styles, pupils as researchers, personalised learning and thinking skills.
“Learning & Teaching Update contains useful articles on most recent research, implementation and review of strategies and information on learning and teaching. It’s heightened and broadened my awareness of current issues and ideas, and guides the learning and teaching group my school.” Maggie Price, Deputy Headteacher at the
“Learning & Teaching Update is great – especially with covering Assessment for Learning (AfL) strategy case studies and ideas from around the country on how improvements are working.”
Learning & Teaching Update will help readers to:
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Experiment with new teaching and learning ideas and techniques.
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Keep up to date with policies and resources related to teaching.
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Operate a successful ‘teaching and learning’ group.
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Keep up to date and ahead of exciting new developments.
“The recent coverage on Personalised Learning and Assessment for Learning (AfL) has been very useful.” David Griffiths, Advisor at
“Learning & Teaching Update is a valuable and useful resource that supports me in my role to raise standards of learning and teaching.” Sharon Hendy, Learning and Teaching Coordinator at
“Learning & Teaching Update blends the latest research with realistic classroom approaches. It’s useful for workshops and CPD and is used with
About the Editors
Dr David Leat is a reader in Curriculum Innovation at Newcastle University. His main interest has long been thinking skills and his edited series, which started with ‘Thinking Through Geography’ and focuses on generic teaching strategies, has been very influential with classroom teachers. Another major interest is coaching, as it is so important in bringing about change in classroom teaching. David spent three years working in the Secondary Strategy and during that time wrote both the coaching modules and developed the ‘Leading in Learning’ whole-school initiative.
Dr Kate Wall has worked in education research for the past six years. During this time she has developed an interest in the area of pupil views, in particular, exploring how pupil thinking about learning and teaching can be heard. She is the project manager for the Campaign for Learning’s Learning to Learn Phase 3 Evaluation involving 36 schools nationwide and has extensive experience in supporting teachers in researching teaching and learning within their own classroom or context and connecting their findings to other research.
