Research School Network: Chartered College of Teaching in the East – update

An update from Kate Sida-Nicholls, Lead Advocate for Chartered College of Teaching, Suffolk and Norfolk SCITT

The Chartered College of Teaching held its second annual conference on Saturday 17^th February in London. Dame Alison Peacock started the day off by stating ​‘we need, more than ever, to get hold of the idea that we are professionals, to speak of our profession with pride, to change the narrative.’ An emotive but accurate start to a day full of ideas and passion.

Speakers for the day were Daisy Christodoulou, Director of Education, No More Marking with the title of her talk Building a better assessment system; how can comparative judgement help?’ (If you are interested in looking at assessment in a different way then you might want to read her book, Making Good Progress? The future of Assessment for Learning).

There were inspirational speakers such as Abed Ahmed, Maths Teacher who has a stammer but shared his story about helping young stammerers to become more confident (@stammer_teacher) to Dr Maggie Aderin-Peacock who is a Space Scientist and shared some amazing facts and offered suggestions about how to address the gender imbalance in STEM.

The themes and contributions of the conference were summed up in these graphics drawn by @mendoncapen

The next copy of the Chartered College’s Journal Impact will be in all schools this week and the focus for this issue is the Science of Learning which has been guest edited by Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and one of the contributors to the journal is Dr Niki Kaiser, Chemistry teacher and Network Research Lead for Norwich Research School @chemDrK.

However, by joining the Chartered College (current membership over 10,000) then you will receive a termly copy of the journal Impact as part of your membership as well as access to other research and notification about Chartered College local events. https://chartered.college/membership

We are holding a twilight session to discuss some of the articles from this latest version of Impact at Notre Dame High School on Wednesday 21^st March from 4 – 6pm and it will be an opportunity to also talk to Dr Niki Kaiser about her article too. If you are interested in attending then please email Suzi Waters on SWaters@​ndhs.​org.​uk.

We look forward to seeing you at this local Chartered College event.