SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION:
       The big picture: Reflecting on research in our 
       school 
  •
   When do we use research?
  •
   What do we do well when engaging 
   with research?
  •
   What have we already done to use 
   educational research in guiding 
   teaching and learning?
  •
   What do we wish to explore further? 
   Why?
     SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION:
     As an individual: Reflecting on 
     your use of research-informed 
     practice 
  •What do you think about the use of 
  educational research?
  •What have you already done to 
  engage with it?
  •What do you still feel you need to 
  improve?
  •What do you feel confident about in 
  terms of using educational research?
  What does research-
  informed practice in 
  education look like?
                   Educational research – why 
                   now?
   •   Our own experience and bias, and those of colleagues, are 
       much more likely to influence day-to-day decision-making than 
       research evidence. 
   •   Many important decisions are made by best guesses and are 
       overly influenced by politics, marketing, emotions and tradition. 
   •   This results in a situation where new ideas and practices are 
       enthusiastically embraced and then quickly abandoned, only to 
       be rediscovered in cycles. 
   •   Perhaps now because there are movements towards making 
       research more accessible to teachers and because we live in a 
       world where facts can be difficult to distinguish from ‘fake 
       news’.
                        What is research-informed 
                        practice?
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