The Teacher Lab is one of two co-creation labs within national programme Ontwikkelkracht. We do this in co-creation between educational professionals and researchers.
Teacher Lab focusses on sustainably contributing to solving the quantitative and qualitative teacher shortage. In the co-creation labs, activities follow the 5D methodology. The research focusses on investigating the fundamental causes behind the shortage in order to develop, implement and evaluate promising interventions and find solutions to the shortage. At each stage of this process, there exists collaboration between educational practice, educational policy and science. Thus, promising initiatives emerge from both scientific research and educational practice. Below you will find more information about these ongoing and completed research projects within the TeacherLab.
Within the Teacher Lab, we distinguish two types of projects: the POLLs and the POPs. POLL stands for Practice Investigations Teacher Lab, and entails a project around an initiative from educational practice. This can be, for example, an intervention from a school or another organisation. Within the Teacher Lab, we explore the promising nature of the intervention and, where possible, strengthen the intervention with knowledge from science.
A POP is a project around themes put forward by practitioners on which researchers within the Teacher Lab conduct scientific research. For example, these are projects where we use large-scale data files. Teachers, school leaders or other educational professionals can join a research project that suits their interests and participate in the various steps of the process, to enrich the research with their insights from practice. We do this in a structured way, through documents we call POPs: Perspective Education Practice (POP).
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Connecting knowledge from experience and science
Sustainable education improvement
Teachers explore the problem together with researchers.
Teachers and researchers make a diagnosis based on literature study, data analysis and simulation models.
The researchers and teachers formulate promising interventions. These are then implemented in the form of pilots in educational practice.
The interventions are tested at various schools. Afterwards, both the effectiveness of the interventions and the process are carefully evaluated, and teachers and researchers jointly determine whether the intervention is promising.
In the final step, teachers and researchers decide whether and how the intervention can be successfully scaled up.
Meet the Teacher Lab team
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Within Teacher Lab, we work in co-creation with various partners and schools
