Users have access to a wide range of  resources, all of which we consider authoritative, relevant and credible. Teacher educators review – for quality – every piece of material included in the TTRB. The TTRB accesses resources from other TDA-funded networks: Multiverse, Behaviour4Learning and 16 individual subject resource networks.

Resources are searchable by subject, keywords, author, glossary term and QTS standard.

Users are able to browse the TTRB by the 2007 QTS standards, with these resources being linked to and from the TDA QTS guidance. 

The portal includes:

• E-librarian service
• a glossary of educational terms 
• audio visual clips, including over 100 Teachers’ TV resources
• subject-specific information and resources 
• current debates 
• an extensive database of educational research, and 
• research and information linked to QTS standards.

E-librarian

The Teacher training resource bank (TTRB) offers a personalised support service to users, with an E-librarian based at the Institute of Education (University of London) available to answer individual questions from teacher trainers and trainees. 

This service enables registered users who haven’t found what they need on the TTRB to ask the E-librarian for further assistance.  The E-librarian will then send you references to other online resources to help your research and inform your professional judgement, as well as assisting users develop their online research techniques. 

Users who ask a question are asked to indicate to the librarian where they have previously searched and what they have found so far, so work is not duplicated.  Responses are circulated within two working days, and subsequently made available to other users on the TTRB. 

Recent seminar inputs

View a range of keynote presentations on the TTRB website:

• Professor Peter Tymms (Durham University) – Evidence based education
• Professor Kit Field (University of Wolverhampton) – Seizing the initiative of the MTL
• Dr Jonathan Savage (Manchester Metropolitan University) – Using the TTRB
• Professor Richard Andrews (Institute of Education) – What counts as evidence in education
• Professor David Lambert (Institute of Education) – The TTRB from a subject specialist perspective

Contributing

A range of reviewers from institutions across the country have already contributed to the TTRB and enquiries from potential reviewers are always welcomed. Contact us at ttrb@canterbury.ac.uk with resources or subject areas you think should be included in the TTRB.

Visit the TTRB's page on contributing to find out how you can become involved in the future development of the TTRB.

To see more about how the TTRB works please view the download link on the right of this page to a presentation with more information.

Visit the TTRB website to find out more.