Dr Richard Churches Email & Phone Number

Global

Global

Global

Richard has extensive experience conducting consulting assignments in a wide range of countries, including: Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Brunei, England, Dubai, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa.

UK And International Publisher

Expertly unpacks, in an easy-to-read and instantly useable way, what every teacher needs to know about the brain and how we really learn and what that suggests for how they should teach. Foreword by Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE. Everyone is curious about the brain including your learners! Not only can knowing more about the brain be a powerful way to.

UK And International Publisher

Teacher-led research can transform practice and enhance attainment and school improvement. 'Teacher-Led Research' by Richard Churches and Eleanor Dommett equips teachers with the essential knowledge to design their own classroom research projects. With knowledge of scientific method, teachers can conduct their own research into areas of particular interest.

Alresford, Hertfordshire

Science is regularly providing new and interesting insights into the brain. While some of the latest neuroscientific research on how the brain learns supports what we already know about effective teaching and learning, new knowledge about learning, memory and the classroom environment can help teachers to become even more confident and effective in their.

Alresford, Hertfordshire

Research consistently demonstrates that teacher effectiveness is about engagement, levels of interaction, questioning, positive atmosphere, teacher expectations and degree of challenge. At the heart of all these areas is the ability to communicate effectively. How you do that, not just on a day-to-day basis, but minute by minute and second by second, is.

Australian And International Publisher

The teaching profession, at its core, is the business of growing brains – but (most) teachers are not trained neuroscientists! And so every day, teachers enter their classrooms trying to understand the way their students think to best support their learning – and finally there is a resource that will make this job a lot easier. In Neuroscience for Teachers.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Our Evidence-Based Supervision approach, designed by Richard in 2017, is a systematic way to enable teacher growth and improve pupil outcomes. It combines quality feedback through diagnostic lesson observation with access to education research evidence (presented clearly and simply, on ‘intervention cards’). This is combined with GROW model coaching and.

UK

The Future Teaching Scholars programme is a new route into teaching. It aims to select outstanding maths and physics A level students who then commit to a six year support programme during their undergraduate years, ITT training and for two years beyond. A sophisticated assessment centre process has been devised and the programme is aiming to bring into.

England

Richard provided support to the Teaching Schools Council and 8 Lead Schools using the DfE Workload Reduction Toolkit to enable them to carry out quantitative research projects exploring the effects of school-led workload reduction strategies. Enabling schools to work together to produce robust evidence about workload reduction and its effects on student.

Wellcome Trust funded teacher-led RCT programme in partnership with STEM Learning. Initial trials, replication phase and meta-analysis.

Jordan

In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) heath emergency - Richard is part of the team providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Education in Jordan to support the development of their Education During Emergency Plan (2020-2022). Richard has overall Quality Assurance (QA) responsibility for the plan: ensuring expert quality control and oversight.

Al-Riyadh Governorate, Saudi Arabia

Education Development Trust conducted institutional reviews of 25 TVTC Training Units [TVET colleges reporting to TVTC] across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Richard led the team of 32 experienced school inspectors who wrote the individual institutional review reports for each of the Training Units. The programme was part of the CBC+ initiative reporting in.

Global

Varkey Foundation Global Ambassadors (teachers nominated in the top 50 of the Global Teacher Prize) were trained by Richard to design and deliver randomised controlled trials. 19 trials were completed in 11 countries (Australia, Chile, Colombia, India, Lebanon, Malawi, Nigeria, the Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the United States.

England

Richard led a programme of 34 teacher-led randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and replications. Teachers with prior experience designing RCTs, some with neuroscience or psychology degrees, collaborated to explore the effect of science of learning-translated pedagogy. Teachers designed the trials, looking at areas such as attention, memory, and spaced.

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

Based in the Ministry of Education in Brunei Darussalam and reporting directly to the permanent secretary Richard set up the National Literacy and Numeracy programme leading a team of 16 expert international consultants. The consultancy team and supporting associates included former National Strategy Directors Alan Howe and Colin Penfold; and Sir Kevan.

England

This programme made a major contribution to the government’s drive towards a self-improving school system and the evidence based teaching profession, paralleling evidence based practice in medicine. Richard led the delivery of large-scale randomised controlled trials in 200 teaching schools and 700 trial site schools in England. The programme also built.

United Arab Emirates

Lead author drafting the UAE Professional Teaching Standards and Professional Leadership Standards as part of a team based at the Ministry of Education in Dubai, prior to the standards going out for consultation.The UAE carried out major reform of its education system with teacher and leadership standards seen as a central policy leaver aimed at driving up.

Kuwait

The Ministry of Education in Kuwait commissioned CfBT Education Trust to design a framework for the external review of all private in Kuwait. Richard designed and delivered the training for all ministry employees who will carry-out the schools visits with support from a CfBT experienced inspection team leader.

England

Providing research adviser support for 30 Teaching Schools and Teaching School Alliances carrying out practitioner action research into effective language teaching. A final report with an introduction by Richard was published in March 2013

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

This was the first major teacher development programme commissioned by Tatweer (a government agency set up by King Abudullah in 2008). Richard was the design lead based in Riyadh for the start up of the national New Teacher Development Programme. He led the team of 17 consultants, writers and experts who produced the first draft of 2,100 screens of online.

England

Following the election of the coalition government, the National College for School Leadership was asked by Michael Gove (Secretary of State for Education) to redesign the English headteacher qualification. Based at the National College for two months, Richard drafted the framework and programme architecture document for the new qualification. The DfE.

UK

Richard was the UK professional lead advising LSIS on the start up of the Financial Capability Support Programme, 14-19. This programme’s implementation was unique because it was delivered across the entire UK. This included, initially, the strategic leadership of all professional delivery and writing teams within England, Scotland, Wales and Northern.

UK

Richard led the design, commissioning and writing of all professional development for Fast Track Teaching, the world’s first accelerated leadership development programme in education. At its height, Richard was responsible for the professional quality and impact of 6,000 coaching sessions per year, online learning resources and 2,500 two and three-day.

England

Andrew Adonis launched the London Leadership Strategy during his time as Minister for London Schools. Richard designed, commissioned and led the Coaching Programme for Senior and Middle Leaders across London Schools and the Consultant Leaders Programme for EBD (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties) Schools and PRUs (Pupil Referral Units). Both programmes.

United Kingdom

As managing editor, Richard led a team of 13 internationally respected expert writers for two years. Over 6000 aspiring headteachers in England used the editions produced during Richard’s tenure as managing editor to support their achievement of the qualification. This role included maintaining effective relationships with all government departments to.

UK

Working closely with the senior team at QCDA and the Director of the National Strategies (Alan Howe), Richard designed with subject associations the reform solution implemented across all secondary schools in England targeting 50,000 Foundation Subject Leaders and all 152 local authorities in England. Once designed he led the team of 10 National Subject.

England

Advised government client on the solution to increase the amount of learning which took place outside the classroom across all England’s primary and secondary schools. This included advising on the revision of HASPEV (Health and Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits) and the commissioning of 70 writers from across the sector. Materials were free to access.

Dubai, Pakistan, India

The Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) of KHDA was established by Decision 38 of The Executive Council of the Government of Dubai in 2007. DSIB provides comprehensive information on the standard of private school education in Dubai, which helps to inform improvement planning at school and policy level. Education Development Trust have delivered these.

UK

Team member on Ofsted inspections in England.

London, England

Wandsworth, London

Newport, Shropshire, United Kingdom

Moncalieri, Torino, Italia

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Business School

Activities and Societies: PhD

Master'S Degree, Education

Activities and Societies: Masters dissertation in school leadership

M Level Certificate Of Advanced Professional Practice In Senior Executive Coaching And Mentoring, Coaching

Bachelor'S Degree

Associate Diploma

Level A And B, Personality And Occupational Testing

Licensed Teacher Scheme (With Med Module At Manchester Metropolitan University), Education

Ofsted Training In Inspection Skills

National Professional Qualification For Headship

Bachelor'S Degree

Amuslcm, Music