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The definitive guide to great teaching?

CPD Pedagogy
The review What Makes Great Teaching? brings together evidence to guide practitioners. But should this review of research lead to a revolution in practice? Suzanne O’Connell takes a look at the study and speaks to schools with outstanding teaching

Teachers are used to being faced with trends in pedagogy. One theory waits to be replaced by another, each time with a sense that we have been here before. We could have been forgiven for wondering if the "definitive" guide would ever emerge. With the release of What Makes Great Teaching? Review of the underpinning research, have we found the answer?

This review of research is published by Durham University, The Sutton Trust and CEM. It sets out to answer the questions:

The success of the Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit was evidence of our enthusiasm for finding solutions and What Makes Great Teaching? looks set to take its position alongside it.

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