Race equality and your school: Research tasters

published:01 Apr 2009

These are bite-size nuggets of research that you can immediately use to develop your practice. They include the following subject areas.

• Beliefs and expectations: Enhancing the confidence of pupils with low self-belief.
• High quality teaching and learning: These research tasters identify high quality teaching practices that will improve learning for all pupils.
• Ethos of inclusivity and respect: Ways to integrate minority ethnic pupils more successfully, and advice on how listening to pupils can create an ethos of respect and help raise achievement. Also learn about how the learning culture in your classroom influences pupils’ behaviour.
• Effective partnerships between parents and schools: Explore how you might reach ‘hard to reach’ parents more effectively and what you can learn from understanding pupils’ diversity.