Author: Sheffield Institute of Education

  • N is also for Naming

    N is also for Naming

    About a year ago I joined a local choir, and at my first session I was given a badge with my name on it – not just any old badge, but an individually crafted, hand-decorated small work of art. Everyone else had their own badge too. Having something with my name on that had been […]

  • Evidence-Informed Teacher Professional Development

    Evidence-Informed Teacher Professional Development

    Ahead of the Improving Standards of Teaching Through Continuing Professional Development forum taking place in London on Wednesday 3rd October, Dr Emily Perry, who will be chairing the event, shares her thoughts on how the ‘evidence-informed’ agenda, present across the education system, can be extended to also influence CPD models. In teaching we have an ongoing move towards […]

  • The ‘Low Steps’ of Social Mobility

    The ‘Low Steps’ of Social Mobility

    We at Sheffield Hallam University are engaged in some great work with South Yorkshire Futures a region-wide initiative to improve rates of social mobility in the area through educational improvement. But, as both Market and Recruitment Lead for the Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion, and a lecturer within the sociology of education, I paused to […]

  • The Real Honour

    The Real Honour

    As a newly announced recipient of an OBE for ‘Services to Higher Education’ I am experiencing a strange mix of emotions and questions. The biggest emotion other than embarrassment is sadness that my mum died last year and won’t get to be there when I pick it up. The biggest question is to wonder why […]

  • “You say … I hear …” tensions in professional/parent partnerships

    “You say … I hear …” tensions in professional/parent partnerships

    In this blog entry Nick Hodge and Katherine Runswick-Cole reflect on some of the factors that might lead to a lack of understanding between practitioners and parents/carers  of children with Special Educational Needs. Inspired by #festABLE tweets, a blog about dealing with difficult parents of children with SEND  and a very kind mention in Jarlath […]

  • The Perilous Praise Burger (Or ‘In search of the Artisan Praise Burger’)

    The Perilous Praise Burger (Or ‘In search of the Artisan Praise Burger’)

    In a world of over-reliance upon pre-packaged off the peg solutions, where convenience food is pervasive due to the time-poverty phenomenon of modern life, convenience is often seen as the number one priority in everything. In this world, are over-worked teachers (NEU, 2018) (also recently reported in The Guardian, 2017), reliant upon the fast-food model […]

  • Stephen Lawrence and Closing the Black and Minority Ethnic attainment gap

    Stephen Lawrence and Closing the Black and Minority Ethnic attainment gap

    I was privileged to be invited to the service to commemorate Stephen Lawrence’s death and perhaps more importantly celebrate his life and legacy. St Martin-in-the-fields welcomed family, friends, royalty, politicians, senior police officers, celebrities, community leaders, those emboldened by Stephen’s life to act and those who have benefited from his legacy. In this famous church […]

  • Research-Engaged Practice in Education

    Research-Engaged Practice in Education

    This month the Research-Engaged Practice Network (REPN) are back after a brief period of rest, with research being presented from a range of practitioner-led perspectives, including the Primary Science for All project, the Research Schools Network and South Yorkshire Futures. For those that aren’t aware of the REPN, it provides a way in which all […]

  • The Only Fresh Air is Outside in the Yard

    This film made is about the ways that children can sometimes slide through school without getting a great deal of benefit from being there. It looks particularly at the impact a teacher can have by noticing the thing that makes a child tick and thinking about how that child can be included in the school community. […]

  • “Dans ma trousse, j’ai…”SIoE conference offers inspiring models for learning in a foreign language

    “Dans ma trousse, j’ai…”SIoE conference offers inspiring models for learning in a foreign language

    The inaugural Association for Language Learning /SIOE cross-curricular language learning conference took place this summer at the SIOE.  For the first time academics and practitioners from Anglophone countries and similar contexts across all phases converged to explore how content and language integrated learning pedagogy could be applied to different contexts and subjects.  The range of […]