Explore the EEF's evidence and resources for general FE and sixth-form colleges.

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Pupil motivation, self-confidence, their trust in the teacher, and their capacity to receive information can impact feedback’s effectiveness.
Read more in the EEF's Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning guidance report.
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History with HAL 9000: Should we use AI to plan our lessons? Reflections on the latest EEF Teacher Choices evaluation looking at ChatGPT

History with HAL 9000: Should we use AI to plan our lessons?
Reflections on the EEF Teacher Choices evaluation
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Implementation Decisions: Problems and Context A new blog series around the EEF's tool for making evidence-informed implementation decisions

Implementation Decisions: Problems and Context
What’s the problem, and what’s already going on? researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Deployment and Dialogue: Engaging Teaching Assistants to Improve… Engaging teaching assistants in the deployment of teaching assistants

Deployment and Dialogue: Engaging Teaching Assistants to Improve Practice
Engaging teaching assistants in the deployment of teaching assistants
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Post-16 GCSE Resit practice review How post-16 settings are using evidence to support teaching and learning for maths and English resits.

Post-16 GCSE Resit practice review
How post-16 settings are using evidence to support teaching and learning for maths and English resits.
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How to Plan a Think Aloud in Maths: Worked Examples ow to Plan a Think Aloud in Maths: Worked Examples

How to Plan a Think Aloud in Maths: Worked Examples
Two examples to support teacher modelling and explanation
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Implementation at Pace Implementation at Pace

Implementation at Pace
Implementation takes time – what if we don’t have it?
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Working Memory: Research Into Practice
Download our free guide to working memory in the classroom.
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How to Plan a Think Aloud How to plan a think aloud: showing students how to think, step-by-step

A Think Aloud is a teaching strategy where you verbalise your thoughts as you work through a problem or task.
In his blog, Jennifer Green shows us how to approach one. researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Making the most of the EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit Getting beyond the surface of the Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit

434,000 users access the EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit each year.
How can they make the most of it?
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Primary schools across England are invited to take part in an evaluation of the impact of offering teachers the option to complete PPA time offsite on teacher retention, using a randomised controlled trial.
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Extra funding for disadvantaged pupils strongly valued by early years… The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

How is EYPP funding used in practice?
New findings from 500+ early years settings and a planning tool to support evidence-informed decisions from @theeef.bsky.social.
Read more: eef.li/kRMTBJ

State-funded secondary schools are invited to take part in a @theeef.bsky.social trial of the Adventure and Challenge Programme, a 5-day residential to support resilience, self-regulation, and teamwork. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and...

Focusing the lens on Professional Development in the lifelong… The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

Focusing the lens on Professional Development in the lifelong learning sector
Lucy Jones, Head of Teaching & Learning at Middlesbrough College, on their approach to PD.
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State-funded secondary schools are invited to take part in a @theeef.bsky.social funded trial of Learning Together for Mental Health, testing its impact on wellbeing, bullying, attendance and attainment. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and...

Building a Reading Culture: Starting with Why? How diagnosing the real literacy problem led to a whole-school reading culture at Dixons Croxteth.

Reading is one of the strongest levers we have for tackling disadvantage.

In this blog, Louise Gregson explains how Dixons Croxteth began their reading culture journey by clarifying the why behind the work.

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Building a Reading Culture: Starting with Why? How diagnosing the real literacy problem led to a whole-school reading culture at Dixons Croxteth.

Start with why.

Before launching initiatives at Dixons Croxteth, Louise Gregson asked a simple question: why does reading matter so much for our pupils?

This blog explores how that clarity shaped their approach to building a reading culture.

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How can schools best support white ‘working class’ boys?
If you missed the first webinar, you can still sign up for the second on Wednesday.
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Primary schools across England are invited to take part in an evaluation of Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS-UK) for reading in Year 5. The study explores the impact of a whole-class paired reading programme.
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Bradford Research School Blog Archive A collection of all Bradford Research School blog posts

We've been a little quiet on the blogging front recently. Our next blog is a cracker, focusing on reading for pleasure. If you can't wait until the weekend for that, don't worry. You can access everything we've ever written in our blog archive.
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3 ways to use the 'de-brief' when teaching mathematics
This Clip from the Classroom from @blackpoolrs.bsky.social looks at 'Supporting structured reflection in the maths classroom.'

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Focusing the lens on Professional Development in the lifelong… The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

Focusing the lens on Professional Development in the lifelong learning sector

If we want PD that genuinely leads to change, we need to stop asking:
“Did they attend PD?”
And start asking:
“What changed in the classroom because of it?”
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The ShREC approach The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

The ShREC approach offers four evidence-informed strategies to support language and learning in the early years:
Share attention
Respond
Expand
Conversation
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Checking for understanding that leads to action: adaptive teaching
How teachers can use pupil evidence to decide what to do next, with the Check. Adapt. resource
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Disciplinary literacy - what's in it for me? Disciplinary literacy - what's in it for me? Why disciplinary literacy is not just another initiative

Disciplinary literacy – what’s in it for me?
Why disciplinary literacy is not just another initiative
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Improving Education Outcomes for Romani, Irish Traveller and Roma Children. Supporting Romani, Irish Traveller and Roma children to feel safe, valued, known, and educators to feel confident, informed and connected.

Improving Education Outcomes for Romani, Irish Traveller and Roma Children
Leeds City Museum
24 March
Join us for this DfE funded in-person event dedicated to boosting education success for Romani, Irish Traveller, and Roma children.
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As part of the RISE Universal Offer, Great Heights and Bradford Research Schools are hosting a webinar series exploring evidence-informed approaches, practical school insights, and freely available resources to support implementation and sustained impact. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

The Metacognition Lab: Explorations in student thinking for English… The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

How can evidence informed practice drive progress in the post-16 resit classroom?
Fiona Matthews, Group Curriculum Director for English at New City College, shares their approach.
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Improving Education Outcomes for Romani, Irish Traveller and Roma Children. Supporting Romani, Irish Traveller and Roma children to feel safe, valued, known, and educators to feel confident, informed and connected.

Improving Education Outcomes for Romani, Irish Traveller and Roma Children
Join this DfE funded conference in Leeds on March 24 to share ideas, learn from community members and school staff, and take away resources to support effective implementation.
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