Innovation An innovation is informed by What you know already about your school its current practice and its ethos What you know already about the students you teach What you understand about the problem what is being done and what might be done ID: 618372
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From Research Problems to Innovations Slide2
Innovation
An innovation is informed by:
What you know already about your school, its current practice and its ethos
What you know already about the students you teach?What you understand about the problem, what is being done and what might be done?How the problem has been addressed in the literature Empirical research, theoretical thinking, contested issuesThe kind of teacher you want to beKnowing all of this should ensure an innovation is well-targeted for your school, your students and to inform your own practice
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The Innovation Cycle
Establish the problem causing concern
Generate ideas to solve that problem (the innovation)
Formulate a research questionTest out the ideas in a pilot and evaluate itRefine the innovationDetermine how to evaluate the innovation: what evidence is needed?Implement innovationGather evidence data
Analyse data to evaluate the success of the intervention
Disseminate results (which may include how to improve the innovation)
Determine next steps: ditching it; refining further; expanding scale; finally larger scale innovation study
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The Problem
What do you hope to change and why?
What does your school do already?
What is currently preventing change?What will be the focus of change:Your practice –e.g. strategies to increase participationYour input – e.g. focusing on food advertisingProvision – e.g. starting a new extra-curricula activityInstitutional initiatives – e.g. a co-ordinated focus on team-building across the curriculum
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The Problem
What will be the intended aim of this change? Be precise and not overly ambitious!
What can be changed?
What can’t be changed?Who will the innovation target e.g. reluctant sports participators, school refusers, able in sport but inactive, low skilled (in sport), teacher perceptions, staff engagement, parents5Slide6
The Solution?
Note something that struck you in the
research literature
that might inform the nature of the innovationGetting started:This innovation aims to ………It will do this by………….Those targeted by the innovation are……………..Evidence of impact will be…………..
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Innovation = Intervention
Implementing an innovation always mean taking action to change something: in other words intervening;
In research terms, this is therefore an intervention;
It is the effectiveness of the intervention that you research: how effective was the intervention in making the change you hoped for.7Slide8
An Example
Your starting point
is that in your school you have become aware that links
between literacy in English and literacy in PE seem weak and so students are not drawing on their learning from English when reading and writing in PE;Research Problem: links between literacy in English and literacy in PE seem weakInnovation: Perhaps English and PE teachers could co-plan
literacy in PE to make links between English and PE
visible?
Intervention: English and PE teachers co-plan literacy lessons, making English-PE links visible, for one unit of GCSE workResearch Question: Does co-planning literacy and making the English-PE links visible for one GCSE unit in PE improve students’ literacy attainment in that unit?
From research problem
innovation intervention research question
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