How can you facilitate school improvement at scale and across a Multi Academy Trust? In this webinar, which is also available as a podcast, hosted by Professor Stuart Kime, we hear from a panel of Trust leaders who are: * Facilitating school improvement across their Trusts * Growing their Trusts in line with the DFE's Trust Quality Descriptors * Identifying strengths and measuring improvement across their Trusts Thank you to Julie Deville (CEO of Extol Trust), Kirsty...

Professors Rob Coe and Stuart Kime, on the 11th of March, discussed the concepts of "routine expertise" and "adaptive expertise" in a webinar. This webinar, which is also available as a podcast, examined the essence of expertise in education and beyond, providing invaluable insights for educators working in any context. Rob and Stuart discussed: * Understanding what distinguishes routine expertise from adaptive expertise, and why both are crucial in different contexts. * The...

Kate Jones, Senior Associate for Teaching and Learning, interviews Science teacher, co-founder of Carousel Learn and author Adam Boxer about retrieval practice in the classroom. Understanding the role of memory in the learning process is essential for all educators. It is important for those planning and designing lessons to be aware of the limitations of working memory and recognise how regular retrieval practice can strengthen long-term memory. Retrieval practice involves recalling...

In this episode, Kate Jones, Senior Associate for Teaching and Learning, interviews Jane Miller and Finola Wilson, former teachers and school leaders and now running Impact Wales, about evidence-informed classroom practices and curriculum. This podcast focuses on the importance of schools embracing an evidence-based approach to curriculum design, teaching and learning.

Great questioning promotes deep thinking, helping students connect and elaborate on ideas. Great questioning to assess thinking helps teachers plan and adapt their teaching to respond to what assessment tells them. Teachers ask questions every lesson, every day - so it’s important to make sure that teachers and students are asking the right questions to move learning forward. In this episode of our podcast, Kate Jones, Senior Associate for Teaching and Learning, interviews teacher,...

Classroom management is a key component of great teaching. Great teachers manage the classroom to maximise opportunity to learn an no model of great teaching could be complete without classroom management. Managing the behaviour and activities of a class of students is a huge part of what teachers do. In this episode we explore a few factors and ideas that can help teachers think about and manage behaviour and culture in their classroom.

This podcast is the fourth installment in our miniseries on teacher collaboration, in partnership with Dulwich College International. Over what has possibly been the most challenging year ever, we’ve followed the journey of teachers and leaders as they seek to enhance collaboration across their family of schools, against the backdrop of a global pandemic! In this episode, we return to the people responsible for coordinating subject and specialist groups to find out what they got up to. Hear...

A year ago, we published the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review (GTT:ER). The year since then has been extraordinary in many ways, many of them negative. One very positive and exciting thing that has been quietly happening this year here at EBE is the development of the tools that will comprise the first part of the wider Great Teaching Toolkit. The response we have had so far from the schools who are working with us – and the results we are beginning to see – make it hard not to...

In June 2020 we published the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, a credible evidence summary of the elements of great teaching practice. In this podcast miniseries we’re talking to the team at Falinge Park High School as they use the Evidence Review and the model for great teaching as the focus of their professional development. Staff at Falinge Park are each selecting an element from the review to work on as the focus of their professional enquiry. In the first Episode we spoke...

This podcast episode is a Science of Learning feast for anyone mildly obsessed with teaching and learning! EBE’s Director of Education, Dr Stuart Kime, talks to Dr Niki Kaiser and Dr Efrat Furst about the approach the three of them took to the design our Science of Learning Programme. However, this is far more than a conversation about designing teacher CPD. Our teaching trio of Drs discuss: The learning process and the value of teachers knowing about it; The key characteristics of how...

In this third episode of the podcast mini-series on teacher collaboration, we speak to James McBlane, a regular listener to the podcast who got in touch with a suggestion and so we invited him on for a chat! Dr. Jenni Donohoo, a best-selling author and expert on the subject of teacher collaboration, and Cat Scutt, Director of Education and Research at the Chartered College of Teaching. Tune in to the discussion as we explore: • The culture of collaboration • The broader benefits of...

In June 2020 we published the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, a credible evidence summary of the elements of great teaching practice. In this podcast series we talk to the team at Falinge Park High School as they use the Evidence Review and the model for great teaching as the focus of their professional development. The review provides a structured point of reference for the things teachers do, know, or believe (elements), which have been found to be related to how well their...

After an eight-year break, David Didau has returned to the classroom as an English teacher. Over the last eight years he has spent a significant amount of time reading and thinking about teaching and learning, written books on the topic and delivered training to thousands of teachers around the world. Our Director of Chatting, Jamie Scott, spoke to David to find out about his return to the classroom. For his blog and to find out more about David’s work, visit the Learning Spy website.

On 19th June 2020, Evidence Based Education released the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review - a credible evidence summary of the elements of great teaching practice. The review provides a structured point of reference for the things teachers do, know, or believe, which have been found to be related to how well their students learn. The overarching goal here is to help teachers take ownership of their professional learning and to help them enhance their practice for the benefit of...

In June 2020, Evidence Based Education will publish a report authored by Rob Coe. The report will provide a credible evidence summary of the elements of great teaching practice. This will provide a structured point of reference for the things teachers do, know or believe, which have been found to be related to how well their students learn. This is the first stage in an ambitious project to provide teachers with evidence-informed guidance and personalised diagnostic feedback for their...

Many schools in South East Asia have recently closed due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, forcing them to move entirely to an online and distance learning environment in a matter of weeks. Not knowing how long this situation may last, schools and teachers have had to completely shift the way they're delivering an education to the students in their care. In recent weeks, we’ve heard several examples of how some have admirably adapted. Nevertheless, moving from the classroom to online...

In this latest episode, Sir Kevan Collins, the departing chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is interviewed by Evidence Based Education’s Jamie Scott about his eight years in the role – taking the EEF from a small start-up with three employees (“and a decent bank balance”) to becoming a global leader in generating and using evidence to improve educational outcomes for children and young people. Sir Kevan discusses the appetite for such research among teachers and...

New Trialled and Tested podcast looks at improving Social and Emotional Learning. Effective social and emotional learning (SEL) can increase positive pupil behaviour, mental health and well-being, and academic performance. Indeed, evidence from the EEF’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit suggests that effective SEL can lead to learning gains of +4 months over the course of a year. However, despite being seen as one of their top priorities by almost all primary schools, only just over...

In this episode of the Trialled and Tested podcast we explore working memory and its importance to teaching and learning; what it is, why it’s important for teachers to know about it and how an understanding of working memory can inform the way teachers teach. The podcast features psychologist and leading working memory expert, Dr Tracy Alloway, as well as conversation with Alex Quigley from the EEF and Julie Watson from Huntington Research School.  

“Teaching should start from where the student is, not from where we would like them to be." says education professor Dylan Wiliam in this episode of Trialled and Tested, introducing how formative assessment strategies can be used in the classroom. He’s the co-developer of a professional development programme, Embedding Formative Assessment, which supports teachers to use real-time knowledge of their pupils’ strengths and weaknesses to adapt their practice. An independent evaluation funded...