How can we improve teaching quality in ways that scale?
Background
Our goal is to create a world-class school system that ensures every child is taught a broad and ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum by highly skilled teachers, so they can achieve their potential. We need to continue to develop the evidence base around effective teaching practice and curriculum design, with teaching increasingly viewed as an applied science (akin to medicine) where evidence-based approaches are widely utilised, and skilled teachers draw upon expert support and professional communities. We also need to build our understanding of how best to replicate the success of high performing schools, and how school trusts can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their schools, including through management of the school estate. A key part of this is building evidence on the most successful school approaches to improving attendance.
Next steps
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Source
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Toward the Development of a Rigorous and Practical Classroom Observation Tool: The Uganda secondary school project
Worldwide, there has been growing interest in understanding the nature of quality education. A major key to this quest lies in what goes on inside classrooms, where children derive the bulk of their daily experiences in ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: New York University
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing a classroom observation tool to measure instructional practices and classroom processes, which directly relates to improving teaching quality.
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Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS): Cultural extension and testing as a feedback tool to improve pedagogical practices
Research shows that effective teachers are the most important factor contributing to student achievement. Although curricula, reduced class size, funding, family, and community involvement all contribute to school improv...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: New York University
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on testing a feedback tool to improve pedagogical practices, which partially addresses improving teaching quality but does not directly focus on scalability.
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ALPS - Accelerated Learning Platform for Schools
ALPS - Accelerated Learning Platform for Schools - is a digital-mentor and research resource which curates and promotes, in 'real time', the most up to date, best practice advice and research to ensure the rapid and effe...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: EDUCATION INNOVATION PROJECTS LIMITED
Why might this be relevant?
The project provides a digital-mentor and research resource for continuing professional development of Education Professionals, addressing the need for evidence-based approaches in teaching.