This presentation formed part of the HEA-funded workshop 'Research methods for teacher education'. This event brought together academic experts in educational research methods with school leaders, to debate, share and determine how student teachers and teachers on part-time Masters-level programmes can best be taught to use research methods to better understand and ultimately, improve the quality of their teaching and improve educational outcomes for pupils and schools. This presentation forms part of a blog post which can be accessed via: http://bit.ly/1m8vkEW For further details of HEA Social Sciences work relating to teaching research methods in the Social Sciences please see http://bit.ly/15go0mh