Teachers and Teaching Research Centre
Implementation
- Scaling up effective professional development: Toward successful adaptation through attention to underlying mechanisms
This paper uses in-depth case studies to examine the implementation of Quality Teaching Rounds professional development.
Patfield, S., Gore, J., & Harris, J. (2022). Scaling up effective professional development: Toward successful adaptation through attention to underlying mechanisms. Teaching and Teacher Education, 116, 103756. - From performative to professional accountability: re-imagining ‘the field of judgment’ through teacher professional development
This paper examines how accountability might be reimagined through one approach to professional development known as Quality Teaching Rounds.
Rickards, B., Fray, L., and Gore, J. (2022) From performative to professional accountability: re-imagining ‘the field of judgement’ through professional development. - Shifting the focus of research on effective professional development: Insights from a case study of implementation
This paper analyses the effectiveness of Quality Teaching Rounds when implemented in a way that is almost unrecognisable from its intended design and argues for greater support for PD implementation across diverse school contexts.
Patfield, S., Gore, J., & Harris, J. (2021). Shifting the focus of research on effective professional development: Insights from a case study of implementation. Journal of Educational Change. - Beyond content-focused professional development: powerful professional learning through genuine learning communities across grades and subjects
This paper argues that pedagogy-focused PD, using Quality Teaching Rounds, is an important mechanism for improving teaching on a large scale, not just for this grade or subject, but for teaching in general.
Gore, J. & Rosser, B. (2020). Beyond content-focused professional development: Powerful Professional learning across grades and subjects. Professional Development in Education, 48(2), 218-232.
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