In Episode 11 of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, Adam Kohlbeck and I look into the essential role of Dimension 1: Understanding the content with a focus on Element 2: Pedagogical content knowledge from the Model for Great Teaching. This episode focuses on understanding the curriculum you're teaching and how it's learned - exploring the sequencing of content and its subject-specific requirements. We highlight why this element of great teaching is vital and offer clear, evidence-bac...
Feb 03, 2025•Transcript available on Metacast In the tenth episode of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, Adam Kohlbeck and I take look at the theory behind one of the key elements of great teaching, balancing it with practical applications for educators. Specifically, Dimension 2: Creating a supportive environment with the focus on Element 1: Teacher - Student relationship from the Model for Great Teaching. The discussion revolves around: Theoretical Insights: Why this element is critical for teachers and learners alike. Practic...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode nine of The Elements of Great Teaching, Adam Kohlbeck and I delve into Dimension 4: Activating Hard Thinking, focusing on Element 1: Structuring from the Model for Great Teaching. What Does Structuring Mean? Structuring goes beyond simply listing objectives or writing lesson aims. It’s about carefully designing and sequencing learning tasks to show students not only what they’re learning but also how these tasks contribute to their goals. Great teachers share learning aims in ways tha...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode eight of The Elements of Great Teaching, Adam Kohlbeck and I turn our focus to Dimension 2: Creating a Supportive Environment, exploring Element 4: Creating a Climate of High Expectations from the Model for Great Teaching. This element emphasises fostering a classroom culture where students feel supported to take risks and challenge themselves. It’s about balancing high expectations with high trust so learners believe it’s safe to "have a go" and are encouraged to attribute success or...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 7 of The Elements of Great Teaching, Adam Kohlbeck and I delve into Dimension 1: Understanding the Content, focusing on Element 1: Content Knowledge from the Model for Great Teaching. This element isn’t just about knowing facts—it’s about developing a flexible and fluent understanding of the subject you’re teaching. As we explore in the episode, it involves deep, connected knowledge and critical thinking about questions: It’s about knowing the content so thoroughly that you can adapt ...
Jan 06, 2025•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, where we continue breaking down the elements of what makes great teaching. In this sixth episode, Adam Kohlbeck and I focus on Dimension 3: Maximising Opportunity to Learn, with a spotlight on Element 2: Consistent and fair application of expectations from the Model for Great Teaching. We highlight the importance of clarity and fairness. When students understand the rules and know they’ll be enforced predictably, classrooms become sp...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching, where we explore the essential elements that make great teaching impactful. In this fifth episode, Adam Kohlbeck and I turn our attention to Dimension 2: Creating a Supportive Environment, with a focus on Element 3: Promoting Learner Motivation from the Model for Great Teaching. Motivation is the driving force behind effective learning, and teachers play a key role in creating an environment that fosters it. In this episode, we discuss how to nurtu...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching, where we continue exploring the evidence-based practices of effective teaching. In this fourth episode Adam Kohlbeck and I dive into Dimension 4: Activating Hard Thinking, with a focus on Element 2: Explaining from the Model for Great Teaching this time with a special guest! Great teaching hinges on the ability to present and communicate ideas clearly and in ways that resonate with students. In this episode, we unpack what it means to deliver conci...
Dec 02, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, where we explore the evidence-informed principles that underpin effective teaching. In this third episode, Adam Kohlbeck and I focus on Dimension 1: Understanding the Content, zeroing in on Element 3: Knowledge of Curriculum Tasks from the Model for Great Teaching. Teaching isn’t just about delivering content; it’s about delivering the right content in the right way. This episode dives into why understanding the curriculum deeply—and...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, where we unpack the essential elements of effective teaching and explore how they translate into real-world classroom practice. In this second episode, Adam and I delve into Dimension 3: Maximising Opportunity to Learn, with a focus on Element 1: Managing Time and Resources from the Model for Great Teaching. Efficient time and resource management in the classroom might not always be the first thing that comes to mind when we think of...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're excited to bring you the first episode of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series. In each episode alongside Adam Kohlbeck we break down the elements of the Model for Great Teaching, from a learner's perspective sharing insights and real-world applications to enhance classroom practice. In this inaugural episode, Adam and I dive into Dimension 1: Understanding the Content, specifically focusing on Element 4: Knowledge of Student Thinking. We discuss why understanding students' though...
Nov 11, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you passionate about helping teachers grow and flourish? Are you rethinking your school’s performance management process to create a greater positive impact on both educators and learners? Recently, Professors Rob Coe and Stuart Kime, hosted an insightful ‘lampside chat’ webinar on this critical topic in schools. In this webinar, they covered: Understanding the Term: What exactly is 'performance management' in the school context? Find out research suggests about its impact on teachers and st...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, EBE’s Director of Education, Stuart Kime hears from Helen and Mat from CoachED about the work they’ve done in their own school to help colleagues flourish in within the classroom and without. From constructing a bespoke programme to thinking more widely about supporting colleagues other schools, Helen and Mat talk about their drive to place wellbeing at the heart of their work, and their enthusiasm for it is palpable! If you’d like to contact Helen and Mat, you can contact them ...
May 22, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 McMurdo (Head of Teaching and Lear...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 implications of these co...
Mar 25, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 already-lea...
Apr 24, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Jane and Finola provide an overview of their careers in education, including their transition from the classroom to launching Im...
Jan 06, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Great questioning in the classroom (and beyond) 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. Kate Jones, Senior Associate for Teaching and Learning, interviews teacher, senior leader a...
Oct 17, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Classroom management is a key component of great teaching. Great teachers manage the classroom to maximise opportunity to learn, and 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. Classroom management and culture is multifaceted. In this episode of the Evidence Based Education podcast, we explore just a few factors and ideas that can help teachers consider and manage behav...
Dec 15, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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! We started out in episode one by meeting collaborations leads, the people responsible for coordinating subject and specialist groups. We talke...
Jul 09, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. However, one very positive and exciting thing that has been quietly happening this year here at EBE is the development of the tools and courses 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 h...
Jun 09, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast The research evidence shows us that effective feedback is one of the most powerful tools that a teacher can have in their ‘toolbox’. But it also offers some cautionary notes... In more than a third of well-designed studies, feedback actively made students’ performance worse. Not all feedback is good feedback! Facial expressions, verbal or written comments, even silence can constitute some form of feedback. It is so integral to communication that it’s happening all the time. Feedback, in its many...
Mar 29, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 to Headtea...
Mar 12, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 people le...
Feb 08, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this third episode of the Evidence Based Education 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 bene...
Jan 29, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 students l...
Nov 18, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 2011, frustrated by the current state of education, David Didau (aka the Learning Spy) began to blog. He charted the successes and failures of his classroom and synthesised 15 years of teaching experienced through the lens of education research and cognitive psychology. The blog became very popular, very quickly. With well over 2.5 million readers, David’s blog – The Learning Spy – is widely recognised as one of the most influential education blogs in the UK and has won a number of awards. In...
Nov 13, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Collective teacher efficacy, professional learning communities, collective professionalism… There are many similar but different forms and terms for effective teacher collaboration, and there is a significant body of evidence about their positive impact on teachers themselves and student learning. There are gains to be made through effective and focused collaboration. In this second episode of the Evidence Based Education podcast mini-series on teacher collaboration, we catch up with colleagues ...
Oct 21, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Collective teacher efficacy, professional learning communities, collective professionalism... There are many similar but different forms and terms for effective teacher collaboration, and there is a significant body of evidence about their positive impact on teachers themselves and student learning. There are gains to be made through effective collaboration. This new episode of the Evidence Based Education podcast is the first in a mini-series on teacher collaboration. We are following the journ...
Sep 03, 2020•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast If your school uses CEM assessment data generated from assessments such as MidYIS, Yellis or ALIS, then this podcast is for you – and your colleagues! In this edition of the EBE podcast, Jamie Scott chats with our CEM Training Manager, Matt McGinlay, about the effective use of data from the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM). Matt explains how different stakeholders in secondary schools, including governors, senior leaders, middle leaders and teachers can follow a three-part process when...
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