A project aimed using research evidence and employer collaboration to improve student success rates in GCSE maths and English resits and reduce the risk of learnerspeople not being in education, employment or training (NEET).
A project aiming to improve attendance, retention and progression of any learners who have challenging lives and to provide learners with a range of coping mechanisms that enable them to focus on a positive future. It also aimed to improve tutors' resilience in ways that help them to deal with and recover from challenging situations with learners.
Using action research to promote more effective partnerships between teachers and student support assistants.
This action research project, which trialled new exemplar Functional Skills maths and English activities, was part of the ETF Phase 3 Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment programme in 2017/18. The aim was to investigate the newly created activities, to evaluate their effectiveness, and to identify training other teachers might need before using them. The project found that an experienced subject specialist teacher would be able to use the activities but an inexperienced teacher would struggle without guidance.
All seven prisons in the North East of England and Cumbria took part in this NOVUS offender learning Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA 3) project in 2017/18. The aim was to design and implement a “teach-meet” approach to promoting outstanding practice through teach-meet events, focusing on maths, English and ICT. Participants included maths and English teachers, learning support specialists, managers and vocational trainers, representatives from the prison and probation services, and prisoners.
A case study report of providing sustainable reflective and evaluative practice for early career vocational teachers.
Support teachers, trainers, and learning support assistants who were not benefiting from general continuing professional development (CPD) to continue improving their teaching by engaging in action research in their everyday practice.
A case study of target setting at an FE college, the development of consistent SMART objectives, and the impacts of new approaches on staff confidence in writing targets and supporting learners.
A case study that looked into developing practice in teaching, learning, and assessment by focusing on novel approaches to lesson observations and resulting actions.
A summary report and in-depth case studies illustrating how FE providers use advanced practitioner-type roles to improve teaching, learning and assessment (TLA).
