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Pulling Learning Through: Building the Profession’s Skills in Making Use of Workplace Coaching Opportunities

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Workplace Learning in Teacher Education

Part of the book series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ((PROD,volume 10))

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Abstract

This chapter explores what we know about professional learning and ways of supporting it. It uses coaching (a structured, sustained process for enabling the development of a specific aspect of a professional learner’s practice) as a case study of how this evidence is being played out on the ground in England during the second decade of the twenty-first century. It draws extensively on work carried out by the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE), first to support the development of the compulsory coaching element within the Government’s pilot of a Master’s in Teaching and Learning; second to support quality and depth in coaching; and third to evaluate the effectiveness of schools as professional learning environments.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Timperley’s definitions of professional development and learning discussed earlier in the chapter.

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    The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre), part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, is the centre for systematic review work in social science and public policy in the UK.

  3. 3.

    See http://www.tlrp.org/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.curee.co.uk/files/publication/1219313968/mentoring_and_coaching_national_framework.pdf.

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Cordingley, P., Buckler, N. (2014). Pulling Learning Through: Building the Profession’s Skills in Making Use of Workplace Coaching Opportunities. In: McNamara, O., Murray, J., Jones, M. (eds) Workplace Learning in Teacher Education. Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7826-9_7

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