Introducing the Great Teaching Toolkit

About This Event

Enhancing the quality of everyday teaching, in every lesson, for every pupil, is our best bet to improve education outcomes and equity. Every teacher can get better, no matter how good they currently are. Our research identifies three requirements for professional learning to have impact. The first is the need for a shared understanding and language about what Great Teaching looks like. Second, we need to optimise the conditions for professional learning. Basically, we have to apply everything we know about how to help pupils learn to the learning of teachers. Third, is the importance of feedback for teachers, coaches and leaders - rich, insightful, actionable feedback that helps teachers to focus on the things that matter, to see how well they are doing, what they are improving and what they can most usefully work on.

In this session, Professor Rob Coe will present a summary of the relevant evidence that underpins what Great Teaching is and how to get more of it. Jamie will provide an overview of the Great Teaching Toolkit package of CPD that all AISL schools have access to.

By the end of this event, you’ll gain insight into:

the research evidence underpinning Great Teaching

what the Great Teaching Toolkit is and how it can be used

About the Speaker

Professor Rob Coe

Rob Coe is Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education and Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation. He was previously Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at Durham University, UK, and before that a teacher of secondary mathematics. He is a Visiting Professor of Education at the Centre for Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University.

Rob’s research covers educational assessment, evaluation and evidence-based practice, with a focus on working with teachers and schools to connect evidence and practice. He is lead author of the 2020 Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review and the 2014 Sutton Trust report What Makes Great Teaching? and a co-author of the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, and the Teacher Development Trust’s Developing Great Teaching report. He is a member of advisory groups for a wide range of education, assessment and policy organisations.