The work of the Chartered College with Dame Alison Peacock

This week on Naylor's natter , I am delighted to be joined by Dame Alison Peacock, the Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching .

Professor Dame Alison Peacock was appointed in August 2016 and became the Chartered College’s Chief Executive on 1 January 2017. Prior to joining the Chartered College, she was Executive Headteacher of The Wroxham School in Hertfordshire. Her career to date has spanned primary, secondary and advisory roles. She is a member of the Royal Society Education Committee, a peer member of the Teaching Schools Council and a trustee of both the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors and of Teach First. In March 2015, Alison was appointed by the Department for Education as a member of the commission on assessment without levels and she is author of Assessment for Learning without Limits.

In an in-depth and wide ranging interview we discuss:

Could you tell listeners about your teaching career in which you taught in firstly secondary and then primary schools?  

 I first became aware of your work when you were headteacher of The Wroxham school in the early 2000s , could you describe the journey you led the school on? 

Learning without limits was transformative for the school and the profession more widely , could you describe the ethos behind learning without limits and the effect it had? 

As you know the podcast started life focussed on evidence and research . I am working in this area and I know this is an area in which you have been working in since the start of your career , could you tell listeners about how you have been involved in and used academic research?

Your book from 2016 , assessment for learning without limits was also heavily based on 2 research studies . You advocated a quite different alternative pedagogy moving always from levels at that time ? 

What were the main points put forward in this book? 

As chief executive of the Chartered College , what is the colleges vision and  mission ?   

The college has already had a huge impact on Re-professionalising teachers ,how have you gone about this ? 

Impact magazine is a fantastic read and now without plastic , how do you go about selecting articles for the publication?

For anyone who is not a member , how can they get involved ?  

Where can listeners get in touch with you or the college ?

In the Teacher Development Trust section:

CEO David Weston is discussing the research around collegiality.

Podcast Pedagogy 

In this new  section with a working title of Podcast pedagogy I will be talking about the books I am reading at the moment and how I am incorporating their advice into my practice. This week I will discuss 'What Works- Research and evidence for successful teaching' by Lee Elliot Major and Steve Higgins.

I will also be paying this book forward to one of our listeners so any listener who shares the promotional video replying with the #naylorsnatter will be entered. 

We will also be hearing from listener David Alderson talking about how he has  incorporated dual coding  into their practice. 

Shameless Plugs section

My latest blog on Early Career teachers and instructional coaching will be out soon.

If you would be interested in having Blackpool Research School or TDT  come in and talk to your school about research and evidence with CPD , please get in touch via the website www.naylorsnatter.co.uk