Occasionally, CfBT works on subject-specific studies, such as
arts education or citizenship education. CfBT is most interested in
modern foreign languages.
Published Research Reports
Investigating
Critical Learning Episodes: a practical guide for continuing
professional development
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This handbook serves as a resource for
CPD policy makers, organisers and leaders who wish to develop
programmes of learning that are effective, challenging and relevant
to teachers of varying levels of experience. Teaching is best
enchanced when teachers analyse and reflect on what happens in
their own classrooms. Interaction is central in learning, and
the approach to CPD involves capturing actual instances of
classroom communication, exploring how these unfold, and
understanding their impact in terms of learning.
Lesson Study: Enhancing
Mathematics Teaching and Learning (2010)
This report provides guidance on how to
implement lesson study and enhance mathematics teaching and
learning through professional sharing of practice. The lesson study
is a form of collaborative practice, a school-based professional
development initiative that can only be learnt through
participation.
The report offers guidelines on how to implement the lesson
study in schools by helping the teachers to share their practice
and grow professionally.
Effective Teaching and Learning
through Active Citizenship Project (2009)
The research project grew out of two concerns held by the
Community Service Volunteers (CSV) education team in relation to
citizenship teaching. The first was that secondary school
citizenship education is too didactic and does not employ enough of
the sorts of pedagogies that encourage pupils to develop the
skills, values and attitudes required in
real-life situations. The second concern was that due to key stage
organisation, continuity of experience between Years 9 and 10 is
difficult for schools to provide and the progression in learning
within citizenship education is thereby not being maximised.
The CSV team wanted to see citizenship education within
secondary schools enriched to provide both more opportunities for
practical learning experiences for pupils and active learning in
the community. Their wish was that this learning should also be
substantially owned and driven by the students. The small-scale and
exploratory research project aimed to provide the opportunity for
such a learning approach and evaluate the impact of this on those
involved.
ESOL and EFL: An
unhelpful disctinction? (2007)
This report
examines the development of teaching of English for Speakers of
Other Languages (ESOL) and English as a Foreign Languages (EFL). It
argues that whilst they have largely developed separately and
crucially receive different funding support, the long-standing
distinction between ESOL and EFL, which does not exist in other
English-speaking countries, is no longer relevant in the UK
context. The report makes a number of recommendations as to ways
forward to blur any unhelpful distinctions between ESOL and
EFL and ultimately strengthen the quality of English language
teaching.
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