Sharing research
Research is likely to be most valuable to you when you have an opportunity to discuss with colleagues and consider how findings or recommendations make sense to you in relation to your professional experience, context and expertise.
Questions to consider while sharing research
• How will you make a space for discussion? Where might this take place? How will you make this feel like a space where people can say what they think and say if there is something that is unclear? Do you need to set any ground rules?
• In what form will the research be shared? How much should be shared? What information is needed? What is most likely to generate discussion?
• Would it help to present 2 or 3 pieces of research which have been approached in different ways and may offer different insights?
“[In] day-to-day interaction with research, I think in primary schools a lot of it tends to be watered and filtered down through a different scheme that somebody else has taken and interpreted that research, or a different curriculum programme […] So it’s not necessarily the core ideas and the core aspects of that research, it’s somebody else’s watered down version of it.”
Teacher Perspectives
Get into conversation with different viewpoints: A selection of quotes from primary teachers about their encounters and challenges with research