The videos on this page summarise four of the 17 elements from the Model for Great Teaching, published in the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review. The full collection of 17 videos can be accessed by creating a free Great Teaching Toolkit: Starter Account.
Use the videos to help bring these elements of great teaching to life as part of conversations with colleagues about evidence-informed teaching and learning. What could be more important!
Dimension One – Understanding the Content
Great teachers understand the content they are teaching and how it is learnt. This means teachers should have deep and fluent knowledge and a flexible understanding of the content they are teaching and how it is learnt, including its inherent dependencies. They should have an explicit repertoire of well-crafted explanations, examples and tasks for each topic they teach.
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Dimension Two – Creating a supportive environment
Great teachers create a supportive environment for learning. A supportive environment is characterised by relationships of trust and respect between students and teachers, and among students. It is one in which students are motivated, supported and challenged and have a positive attitude towards their learning.
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Dimension Three – Maximising opportunity to learn
Great teachers manage the classroom to maximise opportunity to learn. No model of teaching effectiveness could be complete without classroom management: managing the behaviour and activities of a class of students is what teachers do. Yet is it also controversial. Different teachers have very different styles, values and priorities.
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Dimension Four – Activating hard thinking
Great teachers manage the classroom to maximise opportunity to learn. No model of teaching effectiveness could be complete without classroom management: managing the behaviour and activities of a class of students is what teachers do. Yet is it also controversial. Different teachers have very different styles, values and priorities.
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