Characterising effective teaching

Learning and Leadership Department Research Seminars

Join us in this DLL Research seminar led by Prof Simon Burgess  unlocking the black box of teacher effectiveness

UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Most people can remember an inspirational teacher from their school days. Probably, many people can also remember another teacher whose awful lessons were a total turn-off. What did those teachers do differently in the classroom to provoke such opposite responses? Broadening the question, what about teachers in general – how do classroom practices differ between teachers? And most importantly, how do those actions relate to outcomes for their pupils? Are some classroom activities more effective than others in terms of pupil progress? In fact, we know very little about what effective teaching actually looks like. This might be surprising – that we do not have good evidence on the effects on test scores of for example ‘chalk and talk’ relative to ‘interactive group activities’. The central concept of teacher effectiveness is a black box: it describes the outcome of what teachers do, without giving much of a clue as to how to work towards improving it. In this research we are unlocking the black box, beginning to characterise effective teaching, with a huge input from teachers themselves. In a large-scale study, the first of its type in England, we can identify which teaching practices contribute best to raising pupils’ GCSEs. Our findings therefore help students (better GCSEs means better life chances), teachers (offering a way to evaluate and improve their own teaching practices), school leaders (potentially raising the success of teacher recruitment), and teacher educators (providing new evidence).After a 45 minutes presentation by Simon Burgess (Professor of Economics, Director, Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol), we will engage in a 15 mins Q&A.Please register here. If you are attending in person, come to the Institute of Education (Elvin Hall). If you are joining online through MC Teams, we will send you a link nearer the date.For information about UCL's privacy practices and how UCL uses your data, please click the link below:

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