Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: emerging questions. You may have a complex, contradictory or partial answer to your enquiry, but you will also have lots of questions which can steer future directions. Practice and prof learning can't stand still/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: emerging questions. You may have a complex, contradictory or partial answer to your enquiry, but you will also have lots of questions which can steer future directions. Practice and prof learning can't stand still/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: contradictory evidence. Over past few weeks I've established that education is complex, answers are unlikely to be neat and we need to look for exceptions, but what about if your evidence says different things?/1🧵#PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: contradictory evidence. Over past few weeks I've established that education is complex, answers are unlikely to be neat and we need to look for exceptions, but what about if your evidence says different things?/1🧵#PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: simple answers. I know it is frustrating but the complexity of education, of classrooms, and even of one conversation between teacher and child, is so complex that simple answers to any enquiry are unlikely. /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: simple answers. I know it is frustrating but the complexity of education, of classrooms, and even of one conversation between teacher and child, is so complex that simple answers to any enquiry are unlikely. /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: don't discount the outliers. A lot of research focuses on finding commonality, themes, averages and generalisable trends, but as teachers we deal with more than the majority. We also have to focus on the outliers/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: don't discount the outliers. A lot of research focuses on finding commonality, themes, averages and generalisable trends, but as teachers we deal with more than the majority. We also have to focus on the outliers/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: assessing quality. A lot is written in research textbooks about what makes quality research with words like generalisation, validity and reliability often banded around. But it does depend on what you are doing/1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: assessing quality. A lot is written in research textbooks about what makes quality research with words like generalisation, validity and reliability often banded around. But it does depend on what you are doing/1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

The deadline for applications for the PG Cert in Supporting Teacher Learning with GTCS professional recognition is the end of January. If you are thinking of applying then get in touch and we can advise you through the process. @strath-ioe.bsky.social Come join us!

The deadline for applications for the PG Cert in Supporting Teacher Learning with GTCS professional recognition is the end of January. If you are thinking of applying then get in touch and we can advise you through the process. @strath-ioe.bsky.social Come join us!

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: keeping enquiry aware. Teaching is a full on job. Since the pandemic it has become more so. Student need is high and teachers' brains are full, but enquiry is part of good teaching so need to keep it in our heads/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: keeping enquiry aware. Teaching is a full on job. Since the pandemic it has become more so. Student need is high and teachers' brains are full, but enquiry is part of good teaching so need to keep it in our heads/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Ooops! A day late. Just proving I am human😳 Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: having a plan. The start of term/ year is a good chance to take stock and be strategic for the coming weeks/ months. What do you need to get done and by when? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Ooops! A day late. Just proving I am human😳 Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: having a plan. The start of term/ year is a good chance to take stock and be strategic for the coming weeks/ months. What do you need to get done and by when? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Back to the office tomorrow with an exciting year ahead, but it’s been a great holiday of family, rest and recuperation. Here are just some of my views while out and about close to home

The @strath-ioe.bsky.social pathway in Supporting Teacher Learning starts in January for a calendar year. It comprises 3 modules and can be taken as a PG Cert, as part of the Masters or a pathway in the EdD. It also comes with GTCS Prof Recognition. What's not to love? Email me for more info

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: end of term pragmatics. As schools close for the holidays don't compare yourselves with others or put pressure on the what ifs. What you've got done (even if thats nothing) is fine by me. You can move on in 2026 /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: end of term pragmatics. As schools close for the holidays don't compare yourselves with others or put pressure on the what ifs. What you've got done (even if thats nothing) is fine by me. You can move on in 2026 /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

The @strath-ioe.bsky.social pathway in Supporting Teacher Learning starts in January for a calendar year. It comprises 3 modules and can be taken as a PG Cert, as part of the Masters or a pathway in the EdD. It also comes with GTCS Prof Recognition. What's not to love? Email me for more info

In Scotland there is too little support for those supporting the professional learning of teachers, this is one of the exceptions.

As my teaching career draws to a close, I look back and see that my participation in the PG Cert in Supporting Teacher Learning was one of the very best professional moves I ever made. I can't recommend it highly enough.

If you like my Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week, then come join us on the @strath-ioe.bsky.social PG Cert in Supporting Teacher Learning with GTCS Prof Recognition. Engage in enquiry with like minded peers teaching across a range of contexts #StrathSTL #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Are you responsible for colleagues' learning in your setting? Interested in different models of prof learning? What to undertake a qualification with @gtcs prof recognition? Well, you might want to think about doing the @StrathEDU PG Cert in Supporting Teacher Learning #StrathSTL

If you like my Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week, then come join us on the @strath-ioe.bsky.social PG Cert in Supporting Teacher Learning with GTCS Prof Recognition. Engage in enquiry with like minded peers teaching across a range of contexts #StrathSTL #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Are you responsible for colleagues' learning in your setting? Interested in different models of prof learning? What to undertake a qualification with @gtcs prof recognition? Well, you might want to think about doing the @StrathEDU PG Cert in Supporting Teacher Learning #StrathSTL

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: be kind to self. Enquiry rarely goes to plan. Those that say it was all neat and perfect with no hiccups are often playing loose with the truth and retrofitting a narrative that they think is expected by others./1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: be kind to self. Enquiry rarely goes to plan. Those that say it was all neat and perfect with no hiccups are often playing loose with the truth and retrofitting a narrative that they think is expected by others./1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: permission to turn down the volume. Sometimes life/ work is complicated and very full. A curve ball puts you at capacity. This means there is little space for practitioner enquiry, and that is OK. /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: permission to turn down the volume. Sometimes life/ work is complicated and very full. A curve ball puts you at capacity. This means there is little space for practitioner enquiry, and that is OK. /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Be curious. I am at the EAPRIL conference in Valletta (sometimes I have a tough job!) and I am listening to diverse presentations from different contexts with a range of understandings of practice based research/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Be curious. I am at the EAPRIL conference in Valletta (sometimes I have a tough job!) and I am listening to diverse presentations from different contexts with a range of understandings of practice based research/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: sustaining an enquiry community. A really useful question from @MrsKRGray (Twitter/X) Its difficult to start a community, but harder to keep it going, what can help that continuous process and make it a part of 'normal'? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: sustaining an enquiry community. A really useful question from @MrsKRGray (Twitter/X) Its difficult to start a community, but harder to keep it going, what can help that continuous process and make it a part of 'normal'? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: How to start a practitioner enquiry community. A good question from the Strath IntoHeadship alumni group. What do you do if practitioner enquiry is not foregrounded in your setting, how do you get started? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: How to start a practitioner enquiry community. A good question from the Strath IntoHeadship alumni group. What do you do if practitioner enquiry is not foregrounded in your setting, how do you get started? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Leading for and through enquiry. School leaders can make or break enquiry communities in regard the support and space offered to enquirers they work with, and in regard how model our own processes of finding out/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Leading for and through enquiry. School leaders can make or break enquiry communities in regard the support and space offered to enquirers they work with, and in regard how model our own processes of finding out/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

And the sun sets on another #StrathEdD MELS day. Lots of interesting chat about being active in the reading and writing process and input into what makes good systematic review questions. Lovely to see some of last year’s cohort sharing their experiences 👏👏 @strath-ioe.bsky.social

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: back to it! Holidays might be a distant memory, but back to the classroom means back to thinking about enquiry. They should go hand in hand. The new term will bring new questions but stubborn ones will remain/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: back to it! Holidays might be a distant memory, but back to the classroom means back to thinking about enquiry. They should go hand in hand. The new term will bring new questions but stubborn ones will remain/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: holidays are for holidaying not practitioner enquiry. It’s the school holidays and I’m away. Now is not the time to be doing practitioner enquiry. It can wait. /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: holidays are for holidaying not practitioner enquiry. It’s the school holidays and I’m away. Now is not the time to be doing practitioner enquiry. It can wait. /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: line of enquiry. The questioning you've been pondering is important as it is the hook on which the line of your enquiry hangs. It will give clues of sample, the method etc. it will also indicate where the gaps are/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW #EducationalResearch

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: line of enquiry. The questioning you've been pondering is important as it is the hook on which the line of your enquiry hangs. It will give clues of sample, the method etc. it will also indicate where the gaps are/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW #EducationalResearch

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: no prizes for size. There's a temptation in research to think big is better - big samples over a long time with lots of data sources - but this isn't what quality derives from. Rather focus on targeting need/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW #EducationalResearch

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: no prizes for size. There's a temptation in research to think big is better - big samples over a long time with lots of data sources - but this isn't what quality derives from. Rather focus on targeting need/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW #EducationalResearch

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: to guide or not to guide. As a leader of enquiry communities and a coach to many teachers engaged in enquiry, I constantly grapple with how much guidance to give. Should I be telling teachers what to do?/1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: to guide or not to guide. As a leader of enquiry communities and a coach to many teachers engaged in enquiry, I constantly grapple with how much guidance to give. Should I be telling teachers what to do?/1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW