I have been a teacher for 26 years, a Headteacher for 11 years and, at the age of 50, this much I know about what makes great teaching?
I have never thought so hard about teaching as I am currently. Working with Alex Quigley and Professor Rob Coe hurts my brain; every time I think we get somewhere close to defining good teaching their thinking dissolves the definition and we start again. Consequently, I was delighted earlier this week when Rob sent me a copy of a publication he co-wrote for the Sutton Trust entitled What makes great teaching? I have read it once and will read it several more times over the next few days. Here’s my favourite paragraph so far:
Ultimately, the definition of effective teaching is that which results in the best possible student outcomes. There is currently no guaranteed recipe for achieving this: no specifiable combination of…
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