Rob Coe, Author at Evidence Based Education

Why are we betting on giving teachers more effective feedback (even though no one else is really doing this)?

Mon 11th September 2023

Great teachers know about the power of feedback, and research supports this. In the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review (Coe et al., 2020), we summarised the evidence about feedback in [...]

Why do we see teacher expertise as needing knowledge, skill and judgement (even though most people seem to focus on just one of these)?

Thu 17th August 2023

In their chapter in the second edition of the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, Stigler and Miller claim that “most teacher education and professional development [...]

Why aren’t we doing ‘instructional coaching’ (even though everyone else seems to be)?

Fri 28th July 2023

Instructional coaching seems to be the next big thing in education; it is the latest craze to ride a wave of enthusiasm across our schools. Faced with more and more schools ‘nailing their colours [...]

Why are we holding out for more professional development time (even though school leaders say they can’t manage it)?

Wed 19th July 2023

According to the Working Lives of Teachers and Leaders survey, the median reported time spent on continuing professional development by teachers in England is 21-30 hours per year—approximately [...]

Teacher collaboration: Why we’re for it (even when the evidence is weak)

Thu 15th June 2023

A collaborative environment, on its surface, seems like an obviously good thing for any school. Who doesn’t like the idea of colleagues working together to increase student learning? But [...]