The Great Teaching Toolkit
Everything your schools need, to get better together!
Communities of practice
School- and Trust-level feedback
Develop expertise
Embed great teaching
Every classroom needs a Great Teacher
The Great Teaching Toolkit is built on the Model for Great Teaching โ a curriculum for teacher learning.
By using the Great Teaching Toolkit, you support every teacher to:
- set specific goalsย for improving their classroom practice, where everyoneโs voice is heard.
- build understandingย in areas that make the most difference.
- develop skillsย through modelling, instruction, safe rehearsal and feedback.
- embed habitsย with development cycles of deliberate practice, feedback and reflection.
“Our biggest resource is our staff, and the Great Teaching Toolkit is our Golden Thread. It’s how, as a family of schools, we can ensure we are getting the very best teaching we can in every classroom.”
Communities of practice
One of the design principles behind the Great Teaching Toolkit is that it has to be scalable: something that any school can do, that generates maximum impact for minimal cost and time. At the heart of the Toolkit is a collaborative and reciprocal approach โ Great Teaching Teams.
Build teaching expertise and communities of practice across your schools with courses, resources, structured activities and guided reflection through specific processes like identifying, exploring, and integrating elements of great teaching.
Personalised feedback for your Trust and Schools
Learners have more collective experience of the classroom environment and teaching practices than anyone else.
Learner surveys (accessible for reading ages 5-16+) generate feedback that allow you to:
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement across your schools
- Set specific goals for improving classroom practice in the areas that matter most to student learning
- Measure improvement with insights from your learners
More effective feedback for teachers
Feedback can be one of the most powerful ways to improve goal-directed performance. The Great Teaching Toolkit has prioritised the development of more efficient, practical and powerful feedback tools. Use video to:
- Help teachers see their own classroom in a way that is broader, clearer and more accurate than their raw experience can provide.
- Focus attention on the areas that matter most to student learning, with a feedback rubric aligned to the Model for Great Teaching.
- Embed habits and motivate improvement through regular cycles of feedback.
