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  1. 1. Becoming a reflective professional
       1. Identity
       2. Learning
  2.    3. Reflection
  3.    4. Principles
  4.    Observing [supplementary chapter]
  5.    Enquiry [supplementary chapter]
  6.    Mentoring [supplementary chapter]
  7.    Techniques of enquiry
       [supplementary chapter]

  8. 2. Creating conditions for learning
  9.    5. Contexts
  10.    6. Relationships
  11.    7. Engagement
  12.    8. Spaces

  13. 3. Teaching for learning
  14.    9. Curriculum
  15.    10. Planning
  16.    11. Pedagogy
  17.    12. Communication
  18.    13. Assessment

  19. 4. Reflecting on consequences
  20.    14. Outcomes
  21.    15. Social justice
  22.    Judgement
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  23. 5. Deepening understanding
  24.    16. Teacher expertise
  25.    17. Professional learning
  26.    18. Professionalism
  27.    Starting out [supplementary
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  28.    Improvement [supplementary
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To explore strategies to tackle educational inequality in your own context.

Aim

To explore strategies to tackle educational inequality in your own context.

1. Identify underachievement: Use school level performance data to identify an underperforming group in your school. This analysis could explore gender, ethnicity, deprivation or any other educational disadvantage.

2. Explore the evidence: Referring to the literature base in this chapter, work with a group of colleagues to review evidence of the challenges this particular group of pupils faces, and to explore ideas which may help support them to catch up with their peers.

3. Plan and implement an intervention: Decide on a change to practice that you and your colleagues will implement, and which draws on the evidence base for successful strategies for the particular group you have identified. Decide what success will look like and how you will evidence or measure success.

4. Analyse impact: Review the evidence of the impact of your intervention and decide on next steps. This could mean continuing or even extending the intervention, tweaking it and retesting it, or abandoning it and rethinking your approach.

Extension

Prepare a short presentation or report on your project and share this with colleagues to stimulate debate about wider changes in practice in your school.


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