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There is so much more to know about education. As educators embrace the research of philosophers and psychologists we learn more about the human mind and how best to educate those who have not viewed  formal education favourably in the past. I want to make my classes better, give the learner another chance to reach their aspirations

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I love learning and I believe doing research can help me to improve and develop my own practice. I want to, in particular, explore the use of play and continuous provision in KS1.

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As a SEN teacher and working with pupils with autism, I would like to do research on autism and learning. I believe that there are still lots of areas in their life that we are not aware of them and needed to find out.

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My Why

I am Teacher, specially Teacher in history. In my country we have a problem. AS a Developing country Indonesia must have a big effort and spirit for develop my country.
I think, my subject (History) can give special impact for make a big spirit.
However, I don't know, how to make it. So, I think I must learn again and again. Specially about research evidence. So, I hope after I learn about it, I can be a good teacher and develop my country.

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I believe doing research can help us to understand the situation, eliviate the problems and initiate new ways to enhance our teaching capacity..

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I firmly believe everyone can keep learning. In recent years I have become more engaged with educational research.
Selecting the right research is sometimes difficult and how to implement this into both my work and my team development is sometimes challenging but when done right thoroughly rewarding.

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My why?
I work as an chemistry teacher. In my teaching, I always come across some problems, such as how to make chemistry class more interesting except experiment.  How to immerse China course with UK or USA course.  I think, for each question, it is worth to take a deeper thinking.  Sometimes we even do not know how to solve these problems. So we need to do researches and surveys. To give best answers for these questions, to leave some valuable information.So research is necessary.

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Teaching as a practice is often based on emotions and on experience. In my new role as Director of Teaching and Learning, I want to ensure that the teachers are engaging with why they teach in the ways that they do as well as ensuring that school-wide systems are providing greatest impact. Sharing research and evidence from across the system enables opportunities to support and challenge current systems and pedagogy.

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I am applying for my PGCE and I would like to keep track of trends in Education as well as contributing universe of knowledge. I believe it will help me to identify starting points for teaching and learning, evidence to evaluate students progress and teaching effectiveness

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I teach PGCE and I would like to introduce the idea of ongoing research to new teachers.

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Throughout my career I have always found my passion being re-kindled when I have engaged in my own learning - in the last few years this has certainly been true :  I have become more  interested in educational research rather than just ideas, and discovered the world of ResearchED....this has been thoroughly stimulating, but has also challenged me to read behind the headlines and to take part in my own action research

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I have, over the past 26 years, experienced a journey that includes everything from a real, glowing/burning passion for my profession to a total burnout that resulted in absence from teaching for a year while recovering physically and emotionally.

Since being back to work again I feel the "spark" coming back and I'm keen to rekindle the flame I had, and passion for my profession. I'm hoping that through (amongst other things, of course!) the participation in this course and active communication with other teachers from all corners of the world I'll feel the passion again.

I'm happy to say that I feel positive about this, and am looking forward to the journey of completing this course and putting to use my learnings from it.

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Il est capital que les pratiques pédagogiques soient informées par les résultats de la recherche en particulier des sciences cognitives et que les enseignants apprennent à observer leurs élèves.

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I firmly believe we should always be questioning our practice and never resting on our laurels. Good research can help us question our teaching in our quest to provide the best education for our students.

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My 'Why'
To keep track of trends in education. To contribute to universe of knowledge.

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I teach nutrition which is an area which needs to be updated regularly to be relevant.

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Why continue to stumble in the dark when research can illuminate what works, what doesn't, and what needs further development.
I don't have time or energy to try out "good ideas" that have no evidence base.  Michelle

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I think it is important to engage with research so that our practice is supported by methodologies that are relevant and backed by ample evidence.

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I believe it's essential that we engage with research and use the most reliable evidence to enhance our teaching. It's difficult to judge sometimes what is research and what is opinion. In the era of the blog, vlog and twitter there are numerous platforms for individuals to post research or advocate a particular way of teaching - I want to be able to learn more about how I discern for myself what is useful and will add value or is just as you say, a fad.

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To enhance and strengthen my knowledge, to continually refine and develop my craft, just as an artist would view other artists work and develop their ideas and skills.
Understanding of the world can be enhanced and improved by sharing and building on knowledge and experience of others.

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Since I am an education manager as well as a teacher trainer hence i want to understand that how can I help my teachers and trainees in education research. How can education research help me in differentiating between qualitative and quantitative research. How can evidences help in achieving your research goal?

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To improve as a teacher. To have a more well-rounded overview of education research. To be able to support others in finding education research relevant to their needs.

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To be better, to improve, to engage, to learn, to be more motivated, to share, to be more knowledgeable, to be more confident, to be more critical, to be more effective, to achieve  and  deliver high quality education that motivates learners beyond the classroom.

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To become a more confident teacher, primarily.

In order to substantiate our 'teacher intuition' we need to support it with the rigour of research. I also believe in critical thinking that is supported by evidence. However, I do have issues with the divide between qualitative and quantitative research and I hope I can find out more about it,

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I want to be able to evaluate my own teaching methods and techniques in a professional manner. I would also like to be able to lead some changes in the emphasis of education in my school where the teachers can, through solid and recognized methods of evaluation based on their own research, build confidence in a new way of structuring and thinking about what really is important when it comes to educating the children of today.

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I'm currently curious about the advantages of m-learning so that I'm reading about innovative teaching applications in this sphere. Research evidence concerning preferences of young learners helps me decide what mobile apps I can choose for my students taking into account psychological particularities of their age.

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I am currently working as a teacher educator supporting new teachers achieve QTS and NQT status. Being research informed is an important principle of our programme. The programme itself is rooted in research, but I want to ensure I am consistently engaging with the most up to date evidence to support my trainees put theory into practice. My trainees are also under a huge amount of pressure so I see it as part of my role to do some of the leg work in finding research they may be of benefit to them in their contexts.

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I think engaging with research is very important.  It is NOT how I started my teaching career, however I view myself as a lifelong learner and am seeing changes....for the good.  I recently completed an MA in Education and I think this really piqued my interest and has made me want to find out more.  My interests lie currently in helping students become more effective learners (lifelong!) - this is proving challenging at times as students will naturally default to what they feel most comfortable doing e.g. reading and highlighting notes.....it is trying to motivate them to struggle that is difficult.  I will persist though as what I am reading is making so much sense!

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Completely agree with Alison: research enables us to be professionally brave and have an informed level of confidence in what we do. I hope to take away strategies that can help me to share how to utilise and reflect upon research in a school setting so I can equip others with the capability to do so. 

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Completely agree with Alison: research enables us to be professionally brave and have an informed level of confidence in what we do. I hope to take away strategies that can help me to share how to utilise and reflect upon research in a school setting so I can equip others with the capability to do so. 

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Research is essential to continue my teaching practise. I would like to provide pointers and evidence of what I am worked.new concepts within special education, this is my passion

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I find that many staff are skeptical of research preferring to trust their instinct. I hope that completing this course can support staff to engage productively with research.

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My last 3 years of teaching have been in a school that focussed on research and implemented it well. This meant lots of the research that benefitted me was at my fingertips in an easily manageable way. Now I am shifting careers I want to continue using research that I find myself as I have seen the benefit to my teaching practice.

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After spending a very successful year promoting evidence based learning I now want to further improve my own & support others in embracing a willingness to continue to try new approaches and push boundaries

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One of the main challenges encountered by educational practitioners is to decide what and how students should learn. When it comes to curriculum design, performance assessment, and other pedagogical and curricular issues, things get even intricate. I have been puzzled by these topics especially after several years of teaching. Research might be one of the ways to provide answers.

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Research gives a starting point to ask questions. I often look for research as a starig pint when looking at a particular need or question. For example, I've recently been tasked with reducing exclusions. Research can provide some pointers and evidence of what has worked in other places.

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I want the profession to stop... take a pause and really think. I want us to slow down and really consider what the best actions to take are in school improvement and understand the implications for these fully before running along the endless treadmill of interventions or initiatives... 

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I want the profession to stop... take a pause and really think. I want us to slow down and really consider what the best actions to take are in school improvement and understand the implications for these fully before running along the endless treadmill of interventions or initiatives... 

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I want to benefit the children I teach by having a high standard of knowledge that I myself have critically engaged with instead of being told to teach in a certain way and not understanding why.
I love learning and have completed the Cteach programme with the Chartered College-It was amazing.

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engage with research? Because much of what we do in practice is a result of many years of experience which can be shared through research, helping others to understand how practice leads to theories of practice, which, in turn, deepen our knowledge of education

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To read around how to get the best out of my job for the children I teach. We give them life chances as teachers and research supports my own professional development to be the best teacher I can be.

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Because i believe the only way to not stagnate is to move forward. but that movement has to be purposeful and have the best chance of impact on our student' s learning. Research and communication with other professionals offers a powerful way to support that aim. It is also really interesting!

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Because I think professional growth aligned with student progress is the key to tackling the retention crisis.

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My 'why'
I have been teaching for 14 years and have recently moved in to the Pastoral and Inclusion team. I am at stage in my career that I am learning new skills and processes. This has set a light in me to want to learn new ideas and apply them to my current process. Research is essential to continue our understanding within the world of education, I would like to research new concepts within special education, this is my passion; especially in the field of autism.

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I’ve been in the world of teaching for almost nine years, and I believe that it is my mission not to stop learning not only for myself but also for the future of my students. With this, I believe that conducting research is one way of improving the four corners of the classroom and the teacher as well. It enables us to discover more insights which can be used in the learning process and gives us the venue to improve as an educator.

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I've been teaching for a long time now and have engaged in lots of different research activities during that time - it still really motivates and inspires me and I love exploring the opportunities it opens up.

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I want to improve my practice and support my colleagues to improve as well. I've been teaching for over 25 years so more than long enough to have lived through a number of 'fads'. My research to date has been RE specific and was a while ago. I want to update my knowledge of research and gain more tools to enable me to evaluate what I read.

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I always think that I can improve my practice. So, learning how to read, interpret and hopefully carry out a research will certainly help me in this endeavour. I've recently read about action research and I am very much interested in it. But as I've never done a reseach before, I don't feel well-equiped to dive into it.

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I find T&L fascinating. I want to make my practice as it good as it can be. Taking over research lead at my school has motivated me to understand research better.

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I'm interested in looking beyond the walls of my classroom, staffroom and school; to learn from good practice and research; to continue my lifelong learning...

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Because I am fascinated by people and by learning, but also because a lot of the current policy is reductive in views of curriculum, which affects pedagogy, so I wish to take a deeper & more thoughtful (& more creative) approach.

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I have a genuine passion for T&L, and recognise that alone, I can only get so far; research (and sharing good practice) is the necessary tool for development.

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Having qualified as a teacher through the GTP scheme, I never studied for a formal postgraduate qualification. I therefore think this type of CPD is ideal for me.
Having been teaching for a number of years, I have started to enjoy reading about the practice of teaching. As I continue to think about my own personal development and mobility, I realise that by engaging with research and broadening my understanding of teaching, I can have an impact on colleagues as well as improving the experience for my pupils.

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I would like to back myself more and basing my practice on research can help with this.

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By learning new things I am more motivated and excited. Also by trying out different methodologies I can develop my pedagogy.

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I have realised that my motivation in teaching comes from the possibility of improving continually. Secondary, and perhaps primary research seems the ideal vehicle for this journey.

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Through my background in Art I have always been drawn to research and reading to stimulate my practice and this is something that has continued into my career as a teacher. It’s been a real pleasure to be able to have access to excellent educational research being released by places like EEF and the Chartered College to name just two places. My understanding of Teaching and Learning is constantly improving and I want to share that with my peers. Therefore, through my interest in the research I have been more involved in CPD in my school and recently joined the SLT. In this role I aim to help create a culture of continued learning for everyone through reading and engaging in research and sharing best practice.

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Basically, The best tool to research is reading as a second hand information. It helps you discover and open new doors in your profesional life as well as a person. Have fun everyone.

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I am always curious and keen to improve my practice and engaging effectively with research is a way of supporting this. Due to the ever changing needs of children and young people along with the changing educational climate means that there are always new areas to find out more about and new challenges facing us in schools. This often leads me to look into research to find out more about possible ways of supporting children with their learning and well-being.

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Research to me implies inquiry, in this case into professional practice. Since teaching is such a complex endeavour, there is no unified technique or even "best practice' that can tell someone how to do it. So I suppose for any complex activity, inquiry is crucial and perhaps IS best practice.

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I am beginning my journey into research informed practice and in doing so, have lit the fire once more. I have found new motivation and my drive to be a learner again.

From a leadership perspective I am keen to develop the use of research within the school and help other staff to engage with it.

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I really believe in the importance of moving away from fads like Dame Alison stated. There are so many demands and pressures on teachers time, so I feel that it is really important to introduce strategies and approaches in schools that are evidence based, supported by sound and valid research. This is where it can become difficult - finding and accessing the best research out there and ensuring that the validity of the research has been questioned and considered. I am continually focused on improving my own knowledge and continuing my own professional development.

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The main reason for me is to be able to distinguish between the good and the bad practices in order to ultimately apply some of the good practices to improve my own.

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I feel that over the past couple of years I have lost some of the passion behind my teaching, and got 'stuck in a rut', reusing old lessons rather than experimenting new things. Although this is not always a problem, I want to reignite some of the excitement.

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I have been teaching for over 14 years now and in that time have completed other educational research activities, including an MSc in Science and Education. However, I feel I've 'dried-up' in terms of my accessing up-to-date research and want to make sure that I'm following all of the rich research in education at the moment and keep myself abreast of the developing approaches. I am keen to ensure my students continue to learn and improve and feel I need to be a role model for that and ensure I'm equipping myself with the most recent research in order to ensure students are learning and achieving in the best way possible.

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As a PhD student, I have had the opportunity to read and discuss about some fundamental issues related to science teaching. My main concern has always been how to improve as a professional. And I think that, in order to achieve the high level of expertise and excellence I aspire to, practice is necessary; but practice without a sound basis is lame. Research in Education can provide the theories that may help us teachers make the best of their profession.

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My first motivation is to learn how to investigate so I can create solutions to an existing problem. Of course, research with evidence will prove something that will be helpful for others.

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My motivation for using research evidence is with the aim of improving the effectiveness of my own teaching and to ultimately improve the results which our pupils are getting when they leave in Year 11. In a new content heavy course with challenging exams I am very keen to use research based methods to get our pupils to retain information effectively in the long term rather than just for a few weeks when the topics are being studied.

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I love to read and began more seriously around 18 months ago looking at EEF and articles within the charted college. For me, it isn’t just the reading it is how teachers use this and enact it in their own way within the classroom. They think about their context and come together and discuss and share. The power is in sharing what works and what doesn’t work

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As a teacher and advanced practitioner I want to understand more about the world of educational research and how I can use it intelligently and efficiently in my work.

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Because I want to keep up to date with the new ways of teaching and to have a deeper impact on my students' learning.

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During career, I have always wanted to continually develop my practice as I know teaching has never stood still.  The expectations I wish to share with my pupils is that of someone who is willing to make mistakes and that we can from them. I am willing to try and willing to explore further. Therefore I am willing to continue my learning further. What I do is sometimes based on what I have heard works rather than on what research might inform me. Hence I wish to do this course and see how I develop further in my practice.

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When I trained VAK was the Holy Grail, as was accelerated learning, discovery learning, brain gym etc. I realise that although I no longer do these, what I do is often based on what I think works rather than on what research might help to be more effective. So I am hoping this will bring back a spark to my teaching, to make it more effective and have bigger impact for the children I teach.

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As a Nurse and a Teacher it is vital that I am able to provide up to date and evidence based education.

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I feel that if we stop wanting to learn in whatever career we have it is time to stop. I don’t think children deserve a teacher who thinks she/ he knows everything. The model I want to give my students is that of someone who is not always right but willing to “ find out” . In essence willing to continue learning. Nothing I have ever done well was done right the first time it was a continued process so I feel like we all must keep learning and showing our students it’s ok to “ not know something” but it’s not ok to give up. We must all keep trying to learn!

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Everything we do throughout our lives forms a library of evidence for personal use.  We apply this learning everyday of our lives, often without thinking.  We create success stories and make mistakes, but ultimately we use our own and others experiences in order to survive.  Formal evidence based material enables us to interweave our own professional knowledge and understanding (which is often born of many years experience), with the latest findings in neuroscience, different pedagogies etc.  I love applying evidence to my practice, always with my own style.  As unique individuals no one size fits all and therefore change is essential if we are to successfully teach highly complex and creative individuals.  Evidence based thinking encourages analysis, reflection, movement, dialogue, change and creativilty.  It enables collaboration and a raising of standards.  I am excited to learn as much as I can and share this with colleagues in school and other teachers who form a Research and Development Hub that I facilitate.  Professional Enquiry is at the heart of this Hub and it will be enormously beneficial if I can support members of the group in their enquiry based practice.

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As Teaching and Learning lead, I feel it's my responsibility to keep up to date with the latest research that can drive school improvement. As teachers' time is precious, I want to be able to 'filter through' the research and to be able to present teachers with the most helpful and practical ideas.

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Using research evidence for me is about looking beyond what I know or think I know already about education and seeking new or revised theories to apply in the classroom. It is one way of assuring that I am engaged with the latest trends within my profession and helps keep me motivated. I am also leading an Action Research focus group, so it will help me feel more confident with this.

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I recently finished my PGCE and I want my teaching practice to reflect frontline advancements in educational theory and pedagogy.

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I really want to keep up to date with my current practice and engage with what's new.  When working with others having concrete evidence to use to back up what you're saying is really important and will help others to want to find out more.

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I really want to keep up to date with my current practice and engage with what's new.  When working with others having concrete evidence to use to back up what you're saying is really important and will help others to want to find out more.

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I find it really interesting but i am very new to taching so i would like to brosden my horizons.  My motivation is giving my students the best experiance of teaching that i can.  I am hoping this will help me in my teaching role.

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To remain a credible source of learning 

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To remain a credible source of learning 

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I have been a teacher for 14 years and it is becoming harder and harder to remain a credible source of information and a useful resource to the students, that I teach. I feel that my learning must continue if I am to 'futureproof' myself and activities inside and outside of the classroom in order to keep up with the ever changing world around us.

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Lots of decision are made on an individual, departmental and whole-school basis every day that affect the future of a student or students. Yet my experience has shown that these decisions are not always as carefully considered as they could or should be. As such, engaging with current theory and research can, I hope, provide a good basis for collating evidence to inform the decision-making process, resulting in better decisions being made and influencing whole-school strategies.

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To help me ensure that my individual practice and that which I share with my teams is backed be evidence.
Also, 12 years in to teaching I want to refresh my own knowledge and understanding. As a teacher, it is good to remember what it is like to be a learner.

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Our school has a focus on research led-learning, and developing teachers' evidence based practice. I have also enjoyed reading articles in the Impact magazines, and TES. I enjoy learning and reading about my subject and pedagogy. I often find myself without time to do this, so I'd like to try to get into good habits and make time for research and consciously considering how/what I'm teaching and why. I feel I owe it to my students to try to do this.

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before I became a teacher I had that preconceived idea that teaching was not rocket science and then I stepped into a classroom for the first time as a future educator and it was a shock. I remember feeling so overwhelmed after that very first lesson (I was doing my PGCE then) that I wanted to know more. Since then I have never stopped reading, comparing, questioning.. To the point that sometimes I lose sleep (crazy I know).

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Мой профессиональный стаж достаточно большой, но исследованиями в области преподавания я начала заниматься недавно, так как поняла, что это улучшит мою практику и позволит лучше развить практические навыки у моих студентов.

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Мой профессиональный стаж достаточно большой, но исследованиями в области преподавания я начала заниматься недавно, так как поняла, что это улучшит мою практику и позволит лучше развить практические навыки у моих студентов.

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My professional experience is quite large, but I began to study research in the field of teaching recently, as I realized that this will improve my practice and will allow me to better develop practical skills in my students.

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I initially began engaging in research to broaden and deepen my understanding of what was likely to help my students learn. Since then, however, I've found it's evolved into a solid foundation for everything I do and my students get a much better 'deal' than they would were I not engaged in research.

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To be a better professional,  to help our students make the most of our courses, to share findings with other teachers and to improve the assessment we conduct, based on informed evidence.

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To be a better professional,  to help our students make the most of our courses, to share findings with other teachers and to improve the assessment we conduct, based on informed evidence.

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Very interested in evidence based learning, something my school has introduced.  Our CPD has been transformed using this model.

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It is not enough to just do things as we always have, we want to improve and research may point us in the right direction. But there is research and research, we must not be lead astray by poor research which fits are prejudges or ignore solid research which challenges our belief systems.

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I would like to find ways to help my students to learn more effectively - and given the huge number of solutions that have been proposed, I'd like to find the most solid evidence for tactics that I think could work with my own students. I know that not everything will suit everyone!

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To stop me falling for the latest fad and t+l craze. To give me professional courage to know what I am doing is right.

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To stop me falling for the latest fad and t+l craze. To give me professional courage to know what I am doing is right.

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Engaging with research and the evidence it produces will help us to teach in ways that are most effective for our pupils to learn.

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Engaging with research and the evidence it produces will help us to teach in ways that are most effective for our pupils to learn.

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Research is becoming something which is used widely in all aspects of life and it is something which will never cease.

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Engaging with Educational Research provides you with updated information and can provide more effective ways  of teaching.

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I have been a primary school teacher all my adult life and within that time I have felt like I have been driven by whole school policies and subject leaders to teach in particular ways. I have rarely looked into research to confirm or challenge the direction of these new 'fads' and feel now; in a position where I am going to be supporting others, I want research to guide and confirm my thoughts and recommendations.

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I love this job, make us more curious about everything

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yes, research is a great motivation. Students are always different from one another. Same rules of teaching and even assessment cannot be applied to all students, I believe so. In every class, few/some students are slow learners. Extensive research is required to cope with this issue; How to enable the struggling students achieve their goals? Should we only focus syllabus or we should give our learners freedom of expression.
Research is likely to help us explore various mindsets about the same topic and this thing leads to further research.

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THE TEACHING FIELD IS A LIFELONG. EXCITING ENDEAVOUR.
LEARNING NEW IDEAS, NEW ACTIVITY PROJECTS, PEER SUPPORT, NEW HISTORICAL FINDINGS, TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES HAS HELP THE FIELD OF RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES OF MANY DOMAINS.

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I am always a bit weary of fads in education. Some ideas sound amazing (take learning styles as an example). They shoot off in popularity and have a direct impact on teaching practice and we all go crazy to apply them. But do they help learning? As educators we need to be constantly learning, growing and changing, but too much change can be tiring and ineffective. For me, exploring research evidence from a critical mindset is vital for determining where to invest our energies to maximize impact in our teaching contexts. This applies to every aspect from teaching strategies and curriculum development to how we approach our own action research as teachers.