TIPD: Priority Themes
- Literacy in primary schools;
- Numeracy in primary schools;
- Transition from primary to secondary education;
- Key Stage 3;
- Teaching and learning strategies (e.g. Language Learning);
- Raising standards in inner city and rural areas;
- Turning around schools in challenging circumstances;
- Special Education Needs (SEN) and inclusion;
- Gifted and talented pupils;
- Classroom / Department / Curriculum Management;
- Benchmarking of school performance;
- Teachers’ Professional Development & Teachers’ Learning;
- Productive use of ICT;
- Citizenship and civic education;
- Thinking skills;
- Creativity;
- Vocational education & alternative teaching;
- Behavioural Management;
- Social inclusion and behaviour support:
- Boys’ underachievement;
- Working with minority pupils;
- Truancy and disaffection;

