Unity Schools Partnership
Andy is Director of Teaching School Hub and Research School at Unity Schools Partnership, a multi-academy trust with a family of schools in East Anglia and is involved in a wide variety of partnership activity focussed on promoting the use of evidence to improve teaching and leadership practices.
Smashing the Habit Ceiling … With the Help of Insights from Behavioural Science
The unconscious, automatic nature of habits makes them notoriously resistant to change. The more established the habit, the more entrenched it becomes. This is ‘habit inertia’ and it creates a challenge for teacher development. Teaching and classroom practices are highly conducive to habit formation – something that brings opportunity and challenge. This session considers how evidence informed approaches to professional development can provide helpful steers to enable us to refine/change habits.
