Education & Teaching at Newcastle University

24/05/2017

We would like to invite you to our latest seminar by Prof Mark Priestley talking about 'Teacher agency: what it is and why does it matter?' http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/news/events/item/teacheragencywhatisitandwhydoesitmatter.html

The concept of teacher agency has emerged in recent literature as an alternative means of understanding how teachers might enact practice and engage with policy (e.g. Lasky, 2005; Leander & Osbourne, 2008; Ketelaar et al., 2012; Priestley, Biesta & Robinson, 2015). But what is agency? Agency remains...

12/05/2017

Blog by, Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith is Research Excellence Academy Fellow in the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching.

In some of my work I’ve argued that unless we engage more with progressive conceptualisations of academic ability overall, the concept will, by default, continue to be overly-determined by a narrowly-conceived measure of particular cognitive skills (

05/05/2017

Blog from former MEd in Practitioner Enquiry student, Anne Clough.

The Politics of the Canon: An exploration of the factors influencing teachers’ text choices for the new GCSE specification in English Literature

26/04/2017

ROMtels, an Erasmus+ funded project, has produced a series of guidance books for teachers and teacher educators, which includes guidance on promoting a translanguaging pedagogy.

20/04/2017

A feature on TED Prize highlights Professor Sugata Mitra’s project, which won the $1 million prize.

18/04/2017

Sue Robson, Rene Koglbauer, Ulrike Thomas and Anna Reid from CfLAT and North Leadership Centre, Newcastle University, led an Erasmus+ project ‘Entrepreneurial Competences for School Leadership Teams’ (2014-2016). The project aimed to identify successful entrepreneurial competences from the business…

03/04/2017

Newcastle University is ranked in the top 10 for student experience in the UK for the third year in a row, according to latest survey results.

28/03/2017

Read our new paper about schooling and poverty in Tanzania

In general school and teacher factors have a negative affect on children’s self confidence and their positive attitude to learning;.

15/03/2017

Blog from Dr Rachel Lofthouse:

24/02/2017

In his powerful speech at the Cambridge Primary Review Trust’s (CPRT) conference in November last year, Robin Alexander suggested, in relation to recent electoral outcomes in the UK and the US, that discourses of hatred and derision might be..

16/02/2017

Ever worked with a teacher trainee mentor who is not up for it? Or, even worse, is not up to it? They might be the colleague with a light timetable that year, or who is looking for professional experience at the cost of their mentee’s development

14/02/2017

Rachel Lofthouse was invited to give a key-note at the annual UCET Conference in November 2016. Her theme was ‘“I’ll get by with a little help from my friends”: opportunities for collaborative teacher learning in Initial Teach-er Education and beyond’. She drew on a number of CfLaT projects and init...

01/02/2017

Nominations for the Teaching Excellence Awards (TEAs) are now open! The TEAs are your chance to nominate members of staff who you think have been outstanding

30/01/2017

Anne Clough has won the 2016 Marie Butterworth Prize for Excellence in Practitioner Enquiry. Marie Butterworth was a keen advocate of teacher research, an active participant in a number of ECLS research projects, a CfLaT research fellow and a local deputy head teacher. ECLS is making this award in...

26/01/2017

All of these people studied at Newcastle University, but we want you to work out what degree they did. Some might be obvious but others are not!

23/01/2017

Our Secondary Core and School Direct PGCE and Employer-based PGCE students (based at Newcastle SCITT) started their new term with a busy period at both university and in school.

19/01/2017

Free online language learning for NU students & staff! Download free with your uni login at http://utalk.com/ncl

06/01/2017

On Monday 16th January, children in schools, community centres and other organisations are invited to answer a special Big Question posed by Professor Sugata Mitra to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, as part of Freedom City 2017. Along with people all over the world, you will have the opportunity...

04/01/2017

Professor Sugata Mitra is the resident DJ of the week and picks the music he loves. (listen from 49:40)

Your stories, your voice and your opinions with Lisa Shaw.

16/12/2016

Explore the globe to uncover images contributed by our students, staff, alumni and friends from across the world to create this year’s Season’s Greetings from Newcastle University.

15/12/2016

CfLaT Away Day: Mapping research projects & publications into impact themes.

15/12/2016

There’s loads to get up to in Newcastle over the winter break, even without the mass of students about town.

08/12/2016

Looking for something to do today? Fancy making some paper-based Christmas decorations?

The 'Crafts at Christmas' drop-in session will be happening TODAY in the Philip Robinson Library, 1-3pm. Everyone welcome!

07/12/2016

Thinking of studying Education?

02/12/2016

Helsinki-born HundrED is a global, non-profit project building a vision of education for th...

30/11/2016

Professor Mitra recently opened the ninth Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) research lab (a tiny 15-feet cube of a room) in West Bengal

Considered to be a pioneer in creating a self-organised learning environment, Prof Sugata Mitra wants children to study through discovery, sharing, spontaneity and limited adult...

16/11/2016

Kenton's Accelerated Learning Centre is inspired by the award-winning work by a Newcastle University teaching expert

14/11/2016

New Education blog from Dr Rachel Lofthouse:

“I’ll get by with a little help from my friends” (part 2). A different type of ‘safe space’; creating collaborative learning experiences for PGCE students. Posted on 14 November, 2016 by David Over the last few months there has been considerable debate regarding the establishment of ‘safe-space’ on…

11/11/2016

New Education blog written by Dr Sam Shields

This study was inspired as a response to an Erasmus Mobility Grant to the Netherlands. Anecdotal conversations with colleagues there led to a discussion about the different approaches being taken in conducting pedagogical research in the UK and..

08/11/2016

New Education blog from Dr Rachel Lofthouse

This blog post is drawn from part of a key note that I gave at the UCET (University Council for the Education of Teachers) Annual Conference in November 2016. I chose to draw on the lyrics of John Lennon for my theme, because while each...