Kate Wall

2 days to go…

2 days to go…

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One week to go until the #StrathEdD part time applications close for the 2025 cohort. Ten places. Two scholarships. Come join our brilliant, vibrant learning community. Apply now! @strath-ioe.bsky.social

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One week to go until the #StrathEdD part time applications close for the 2025 cohort. Ten places. Two scholarships. Come join our brilliant, vibrant learning community. Apply now! @strath-ioe.bsky.social

Two and a half weeks to go until applications close for the part time #StrathEdD @strath-ioe.bsky.social

Graduation is a wonderful time of the year. Fantastic to see so many @strath-ioe.bsky.social students cross the stage, particularly the 6 PhD and 2 EdD students who have completed their studies and are now able to call themselves Dr 👏👏👏👏👏

Did you know that there are two fees only scholarships available for the part time EdD programme starting in September at the @strath-ioe.bsky.social ? #StrathEdD These will be awarded at interview, you have to be in it to win it! Applications close on the 18th July. www.strath.ac.uk/courses/rese...

Did you know that there are two fees only scholarships available for the part time EdD programme starting in September at the @strath-ioe.bsky.social ? #StrathEdD These will be awarded at interview, you have to be in it to win it! Applications close on the 18th July. www.strath.ac.uk/courses/rese...

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Finishing up. It's the last week of term in Scotland so this tip offers the opportunity to reflect, and then a rallying call to stop, relax and do other stuff. Practitioner Enquiry can now wait until August /1🧵
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#PractitionerEnquiryTotW will be back in August ready for the new school year. Cheers! /5

And, as I know there'll be a few who don't want to switch off as they love the process of learning about practice, maybe have a think about further study to 'scratch that itch'. Come for a chat about masters or EdD - the @strath-ioe.bsky.social learning community is very welcoming /4

Second, switch off. Practitioner enquiry is about practice and prof learning . During the holidays you are not in your professional practice, therefore you can't do practitioner enquiry. It doesn't work. For fear of repeating myself, holidays are for holidaying. Enjoy! /3

First, reflect. Look at what you've achieved, the process that you've gone through and learning that has come about. This may be related to pedagogy, the learners in your care, research, and/or yourself (professionally or as a learner). Then give yourself a reward - well done/2

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Finishing up. It's the last week of term in Scotland so this tip offers the opportunity to reflect, and then a rallying call to stop, relax and do other stuff. Practitioner Enquiry can now wait until August /1🧵
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW

The part time #StrathEdD has less than a month to go before applications close on 18th July. Interviews will be held in early August 2025. There will be 10 part time places on the programme this year and 2 fees only scholarships are available @strath-ioe.bsky.social www.strath.ac.uk/courses/rese...

The part time #StrathEdD has less than a month to go before applications close on 18th July. Interviews will be held in early August 2025. There will be 10 part time places on the programme this year and 2 fees only scholarships are available @strath-ioe.bsky.social www.strath.ac.uk/courses/rese...

Inspired - most definitely! Feed them and they will come…

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: organising sharing events. Last week I spoke to all those enquirers sharing their work, this week its the organisers of those times and spaces sharing who are the focus. How do you create a culture for prof talk? /1🧵
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The best thing organisers can do is lead by example - show you're doing enquiry too, model different ways of sharing, demonstrate ways of questioning that are authentic, appreciative and supportive, and importantly agree/ disagree with a smile and to promote productive learning/6

Its worth spending time considering how to manage agreement and disagreement within the prof talk. It is appropriate for not everyone to agree about pedagogy or methodology, but this should still be appreciative and respectful. How can a space support that kind of culture?/5

During the event then thinking about how to scaffold supportive conversations is helpful. How can participants question each other naturally and affirmatively? Sometimes spaces shut off contributions from some individuals. so think about variation and different opportunities /4

This might mean organising an event with a range of opportunities to share from which practitioners can choose from and adapt. Being clear about expectations and requirements beforehand is important. Some examples of different approaches to sharing are also useful /3

Organisers need to create spaces that do not presume or predetermine particular formats for sharing. A level of formality can be assumed or presumed, but this is not a requirement, its more important people are confident to talk then straightjacketed into a particular format/2

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: organising sharing events. Last week I spoke to all those enquirers sharing their work, this week its the organisers of those times and spaces sharing who are the focus. How do you create a culture for prof talk? /1🧵
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW
#EducationalResearch

Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Sharing. I am attending and hearing about sharing events within and across schools and other educational settings, where practitioners take a deep breath and share their enquiries. It's nerve wracking! /1🧵
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#EducationalResearch

Next week I will focus on advice for organisers of these events...

This is YOUR enquiry about YOUR practice where you have expertise no one else has. You chose a question you felt was useful, collected evidence that helped find an answer, and produced outcomes that gave you warrant to move practice forward. Be confident that's enough. /7

Remember that feeling of hearing that someone else has a similar issue or finding out about an approach that you have never heard of before that might work with a group of children - I promise that's how most of your audience is feeling listening to you about what you did. /6

Don't feel that you have to retrofit a perfect narrative to your enquiry. Research is messy and has its successes and failure. There is no perfect research project out there and so normalise the 'warts and all' of learning. Sometimes it goes to plan and other times it doesn't /5

Share in way that you feel comfortable with (organisers try not to dictate an approach to sharing). It could be formal or informal. It could be centred on a single bit of evidence or it could be a formal report or powerpoint. Whatever acts as an aide memoire for you to talk to/4