The resources on this website are designed to support the development of high quality professional judgement - recognizing that the many challenges and dilemmas in education require expert decision-making. Our resources are ‘evidence-informed’ - combining tried-and-tested practice with high quality educational research.
In particular, they draw on the UK’s largest ever programme of educational research, the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP), which Andrew Pollard directed.
The conceptual framework represents the complexity (and fascination) of teacher expertise. The underlying proposition is that enduring educational issues concerning educational aims, learning contexts, classroom processes and learning outcomes are played out in practice through curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.