The Evidence Based Education Podcast
A podcast from the EBE team discussing how evidence-based education can have a practical and achievable positive impact on pupil outcomes.
Episodes
Making your Inclusion Strategy count: Inclusive Mainstream Fund
By 31 December 2026, mainstream schools in England receiving the Inclusive Mainstream Fund must publish an Inclusion Strategy Statement. But what should this strategy include, and how can schools make it a plan that delivers long-term value and benefits the greatest number of learners? In this webinar with Stuart Kime and Victoria Gardiner-Earl, Deputy [...]
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What does inclusion in a classroom really look like?
A pupil can be sitting quietly in a classroom, completing set tasks and showing observable signs of engagement – they track the teacher, they nod, they respond to instructions. But engagement is not learning. Is every learner in the room thinking hard about ambitious curriculum content? Are they contributing meaningfully? Are their contributions valued? [...]
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Professional Learning and Teacher Agency
In this episode of the Evidence Based Education podcast we are joined by Dr Lisa-Maria Müller from the Chartered College of Teaching for a wide-ranging conversation about professional learning in education. Together, we explore how schools and systems are rethinking the design of professional learning — moving beyond compliance-driven models towards approaches that prioritise [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 4, Element 5
In this final episode of the Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime look into Dimension 4: Activating hard thinking focusing on Element 5: Embedding from the Model for Great Teaching. This episode is all about helping learning stick. We explore: What it really means to embed learning in a way that supports long-term retention How activities in the [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 4, Element 4
In this 16th episode of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime explore Dimension 4: Activating hard thinking focusing on Element 4: Interacting from the Model for Great Teaching. Today's discussion hones in on responding appropriately to feedback from students about their thinking/knowledge/understanding; giving students actionable feedback to guide their learning. L
The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 4, Element 3
In this 15th episode of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime dive into Dimension 4: Activating hard thinking focusing on Element 3: Questioning from the Model for Great Teaching. If we want students to learn deeply, we need to get them thinking hard. But how do we do that in [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 3, Element 3
In episode fourteen of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime discuss Dimension 3: Maximising opportunity to learn with a focus on Element 3: Preventing and responding to disruption from the Model for Great Teaching. Disruption can derail learning, but great teachers handle it before it even starts. Learn how great [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 1, Element 2
In Episode 11 of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime look into the essential role of Dimension 1: Understanding the content with a focus on Element 2: Pedagogical content knowledge from the Model for Great Teaching. This episode focuses on understanding the curriculum you're teaching and how it's learned [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 2, Element 2
In episode thirteen of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime and I explore Dimension 2: Creating a supportive environment with a focus on Element 2: Student-Student relationship from the Model for Great Teaching—an essential component of creating a supportive learning environment. This episode focuses on the relationships between students [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 4, Element 6
In episode twelfth of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime explore Dimension 4: Activating hard thinking focusing on Element 6: Activating from the Model for Great Teaching. This episode focuses on empowering students to become independent learners by enhancing their ability to plan, regulate, and monitor their own learning [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 2, Element 1
In the tenth episode of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime take a look at the theory behind one of the key elements of great teaching, balancing it with practical applications for educators. Specifically, Dimension 2: Creating a supportive environment with the focus on Element 1: Teacher - [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 4, Element 1
In episode nine of The Elements of Great Teaching, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime delve into Dimension 4: Activating Hard Thinking, focusing on Element 1: Structuring from the Model for Great Teaching. What Does Structuring Mean? Structuring goes beyond simply listing objectives or writing lesson aims. It’s about carefully designing and sequencing learning tasks [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 2, Element 4
In episode eight of The Elements of Great Teaching, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime turn our focus to Dimension 2: Creating a Supportive Environment, exploring Element 4: Creating a Climate of High Expectations from the Model for Great Teaching. This element emphasises fostering a classroom culture where students feel supported to take risks and [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 1, Element 1
In Episode 7 of The Elements of Great Teaching, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime delve into Dimension 1: Understanding the Content, focusing on Element 1: Content Knowledge from the Model for Great Teaching. This element isn’t just about knowing facts—it’s about developing a flexible and fluent understanding of the subject you’re teaching. As we [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 3, Element 2
Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, where we continue breaking down the elements of what makes great teaching. In this sixth episode, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime focus on Dimension 3: Maximising Opportunity to Learn, with a spotlight on Element 2: Consistent and fair application of expectations from the Model for [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 2, Element 3
Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching, where we explore the essential elements that make great teaching impactful. In this fifth episode, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime turn our attention to Dimension 2: Creating a Supportive Environment, with a focus on Element 3: Promoting Learner Motivation from the Model for Great Teaching. Motivation [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 4, Element 2
Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching, where we continue exploring the evidence-based practices of effective teaching. In this fourth episode Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime dive into Dimension 4: Activating Hard Thinking, with a focus on Element 2: Explaining from the Model for Great Teaching this time with a special guest! Great [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 1, Element 3
Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, where we explore the evidence-informed principles that underpin effective teaching. In this third episode, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime look into Dimension 1: Understanding the Content, focusing in on Element 3: Knowledge of Curriculum Tasks from the Model for Great Teaching. Teaching isn’t just about [...]
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The Elements of Great Teaching – Dimension 3 Element 1
Welcome back to The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series, where we unpack the essential elements of effective teaching and explore how they translate into real-world classroom practice. In this second episode, Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime delve into Dimension 3: Maximising Opportunity to Learn, with a focus on Element 1: Managing Time and [...]
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Welcome to The Elements of Great Teaching Podcast Series!
We're excited to bring you the first episode of The Elements of Great Teaching podcast series. In each episode Adam Kohlbeck and Stuart Kime break down the elements of the Model for Great Teaching, from a learner's perspective sharing insights and real-world applications to enhance classroom practice . In this inaugural episode, they dive [...]
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Can performance management help shape Great Teachers?
Are you passionate about helping teachers grow and flourish? Are you rethinking your school’s performance management process to create a greater positive impact on both educators and learners? Recently, Professors Rob Coe and Stuart Kime, hosted an insightful ‘lampside chat’ webinar on this critical topic in schools. In this webinar, they covered: Understanding the [...]
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In Conversation with CoachED
In this episode, Evidence Based Education’s Director of Education, Stuart Kime hears from Helen and Mat from CoachED about the work they’ve done in their own school to help colleagues flourish in within the classroom and without. From constructing a bespoke programme to thinking more widely about supporting colleagues other schools, Helen and Mat [...]
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Developing Great Teaching across a Multi Academy Trust
How can you facilitate school improvement at scale and across a Multi Academy Trust? In this webinar, which is also available as a podcast, hosted by Professor Stuart Kime, we hear from a panel of Trust leaders who are: Facilitating school improvement across their Trusts Growing their Trusts in line with the DFE's Trust [...]
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Developing Adaptive Expertise
Professors Rob Coe and Stuart Kime, on the 11th of March, discussed the concepts of "routine expertise" and "adaptive expertise" in a webinar. This webinar, which is also available as a podcast, examined the essence of expertise in education and beyond, providing invaluable insights for educators working in any context. Rob and Stuart discussed: Understanding [...]
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Retrieval practice in the classroom with Adam Boxer
Kate Jones, Senior Associate for Teaching and Learning, interviews Science teacher, co-founder of Carousel Learn and author Adam Boxer about retrieval practice in the classroom. Understanding the role of memory in the learning process is essential for all educators. It is important for those planning and designing lessons to be aware of the limitations [...]
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Evidence-informed classroom practice with Impact Wales
In this episode, Kate Jones, Senior Associate for Teaching and Learning, interviews Jane Miller and Finola Wilson, former teachers and school leaders and now running Impact Wales, about evidence-informed classroom practices and curriculum. This podcast focuses on the importance of schools embracing an evidence-based approach to curriculum design, teaching and learning. Jane and Finola [...]
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Questioning in the classroom
Great questioning in the classroom (and beyond) promotes deep thinking, helping students connect and elaborate on ideas. Great questioning to assess thinking helps teachers plan and adapt their teaching to respond to what assessment tells them. Teachers ask questions every lesson, every day – so it’s important to make sure that teachers and students [...]
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Classroom Management
Classroom management is a key component of great teaching. Great teachers manage the classroom to maximise opportunity to learn, and no model of great teaching could be complete without classroom management. Managing the behaviour and activities of a class of students is a huge part of what teachers do. Classroom management and culture is [...]
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Teacher collaboration: Episode 4
This podcast is the fourth installment in our miniseries on teacher collaboration, in partnership with Dulwich College International. Over what has possibly been the most challenging year ever, we’ve followed the journey of teachers and leaders as they seek to enhance collaboration across their family of schools, against the backdrop of a global pandemic! [...]
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The feedback pendulum
The research evidence shows us that effective feedback is one of the most powerful tools that a teacher can have in their ‘toolbox’. But it also offers some cautionary notes... In more than a third of well-designed studies, feedback actively made students’ performance worse. Not all feedback is good feedback! Facial expressions, verbal or [...]
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A culture of trust and learning: Episode 2
In June 2020 we published the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, a credible evidence summary of the elements of great teaching practice. In this podcast miniseries we’re talking to the team at Falinge Park High School as they use the Evidence Review and the model for great teaching as the focus of their professional development. [...]
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The Science of Learning: What should teachers know, and why?
This podcast episode is a Science of Learning feast for anyone mildly obsessed with teaching and learning! Evidence Based Education’s Director of Education, Dr Stuart Kime, talks to Dr Niki Kaiser and Dr Efrat Furst about the approach the three of them took to the design our Science of Learning Programme. However, this is [...]
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Teacher Collaboration: Episode 3
In this third episode of the Evidence Based Education podcast mini-series on teacher collaboration, we speak to James McBlane, a regular listener to the podcast who got in touch with a suggestion and so we invited him on for a chat! Dr. Jenni Donohoo, a best-selling author and expert on the subject of teacher [...]
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Great Teaching Toolkit: A culture of trust and learning
In June 2020 we published the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, a credible evidence summary of the Elements of great teaching practice. In this podcast series we talk to the team at Falinge Park High School as they use the Evidence Review and the model for great teaching as the focus of their professional [...]
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Back to school with David Didau
In 2011, frustrated by the current state of education, David Didau (aka the Learning Spy) began to blog. He charted the successes and failures of his classroom and synthesised 15 years of teaching experienced through the lens of education research and cognitive psychology. The blog became very popular, very quickly. With well over 2.5 [...]
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Teacher Collaboration: Episode 2
Collective teacher efficacy, professional learning communities, collective professionalism… There are many similar but different forms and terms for effective teacher collaboration, and there is a significant body of evidence about their positive impact on teachers themselves and student learning. There are gains to be made through effective and focused collaboration. In this second episode [...
Teacher Collaboration: Episode 1
Collective teacher efficacy, professional learning communities, collective professionalism... There are many similar but different forms and terms for effective teacher collaboration, and there is a significant body of evidence about their positive impact on teachers themselves and student learning. There are gains to be made through effective collaboration. This new episode of the Evidence [...
The Dimensions of Great Teaching: An interview with Rob Coe
On 19th June 2020, Evidence Based Education released the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review - a credible evidence summary of the Elements of great teaching practice. The review provides a structured point of reference for the things teachers do, know, or believe, which have been found to be related to how well their students [...]
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The Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence review
In June 2020, Evidence Based Education will publish a report authored by Rob Coe. The report will provide a credible evidence summary of the Elements of great teaching practice. This will provide a structured point of reference for the things teachers do, know or believe, which have been found to be related to how [...]
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Assessment and feedback in an online context
Many schools in South East Asia have recently closed due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, forcing them to move entirely to an online and distance learning environment in a matter of weeks. Those schools are now looking for answers to questions like 'how do you deliver assessment and feedback in an online context?' [...]
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‘Exit Interview’ with Sir Kevan Collins – is teaching becoming more evidence-informed?
In this latest episode, 'is teaching becoming more evidence-informed?', Sir Kevan Collins, the departing chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is interviewed by Evidence Based Education’s Jamie Scott about his eight years in the role – taking the EEF from a small start-up with three employees (“and a decent bank balance”) to [...]
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Improving Social and Emotional Learning
New Trialled and Tested podcast looks at improving Social and Emotional Learning. Effective social and emotional learning (SEL) can increase positive pupil behaviour, mental health and well-being, and academic performance. Indeed, evidence from the EEF’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit suggests that effective SEL can lead to learning gains of +4 months over the course [...]
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Trialled and Tested: Working Memory
In this episode of the Trialled and Tested podcast we explore working memory and its importance to teaching and learning; what it is, why it’s important for teachers to know about it and how an understanding of working memory can inform the way teachers teach. Working memory is the ability to hold and manipulate [...]
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Trialled and Tested: Embedding Formative Assessment
“Teaching should start from where the student is, not from where we would like them to be." says education professor Dylan Wiliam. In this episode of Trialled and Tested: Embedding Formative Assessment, we introduce how formative assessment strategies can be used in the classroom. Dylan is the co-developer of a professional development programme, Embedding [...]
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Improving secondary science
In this episode of Trialled and Tested: Improving secondary science, Jamie Scott from Evidence Based Education speaks to Emily Yeomans (EEF Head of Programme Strategy), Sir John Holman (Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of York) and Dr Niki Kaiser (Chemistry Teacher and Research Lead at Norwich Research School) to explore some of [...]
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The Science of Learning
Is the science of learning really a science? What can teachers and students learn from the research evidence on effective studying and learning? What aspects of cognitive psychology could affect teachers and students in the next ten years? These are some of the questions Stuart Kime posed to Professors Anne Cleary and Matt Rhodes [...]
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Efficacy, evidence and evaluation
In this episode of the Trialled and Tested podcast, 'Efficacy, evidence and evaluation', Jamie Scott from Evidence Based Education speaks to Eleanor Stringer and Matthew van Poortvliet from the Education Endowment Foundation to find out more about their approach to identifying projects to fund, scaling-up promising projects and running evaluations. Here’s a full account [...]
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What is an RSP?
Over the last year, Evidence Based Education and Suffolk County Council have been working in partnership to deliver a robust, cost-effective and enjoyable Research Support Partnership (RSP) programme to train staff from schools and academies throughout Suffolk. The aim of the programme has been to develop a network of capable Research Leads across the [...]
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Professor Alan Castel on memory and aging
In the latest episode of The Evidence Based Education podcast, UCLA Psychology Professor Alan Castel talks to our Director of Education Stuart Kime about his new book, Better with Age, and offers practical tips for staying mentally sharp as the years pass. We cover a wide range of fascinating and highly relevant topics, including [...]
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Trialled and tested: Metacognition and self-regulated learning
We’ve teamed up with the Education Endowment Foundation to bring you a new podcast – Trialled and Tested! This first episode is on metacognition and self-regulated learning. We'll post this inaugural episode on the EBE podcast too, but to make sure you have access to future episodes, do search for Trialled and Tested in [...]
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Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Professor Rob Coe (Part 3)
Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people. We sit down for a chat to find out a bit [...]
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Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Professor Rob Coe (Part 2)
Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people. We sit down for a chat to find out a bit [...]
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Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Professor Rob Coe (Part 1)
Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people. We sit down for a chat to find out a bit [...]
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“Support a student’s sense of autonomy and they thrive!” Dr Erika Patall
Dr Erika Patall is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. We spoke on the phone a short while ago and recorded it here for you. She talks about her research, explains what motivation in a student can look like to a teacher, and how to encourage students to be more invested [...]
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Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Daisy Christodoulou
Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people. We sit down for a chat to find out a bit [...]
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Robert and Elizabeth Bjork: an interview
After a brief hiatus from recording and publishing podcasts over the Christmas period, we were delighted to be able to speak to Robert and Elizabeth Bjork at UCLA about their research. Robert and Elizabeth are perhaps best known for their work on "retrieval practice" - the idea that repeated testing is more effective as [...]
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Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Alison Peacock
Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people. We sit down for a chat to find out a bit [...]
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Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U: Geoff Barton
Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this new podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people, and to allow them to share their stories. We sit [...]
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Ray Land: Threshold concepts
Welcome back to another episode of the EBE Podcast. This month, our Director of Education, Stuart Kime, went to Durham University's School of Education to chat to Ray Land, a pioneer in the field of threshold concepts, troublesome knowledge and liminality. Ray is Professor of Higher Education at Durham University and Director of Durham’s [...]
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#UKEdResChat: Strategies for effective implementation in schools
As many of you will know (particularly those Twitterers among you), last Thursday evening, we hosted #UKEdResChat. The title for the week was "Making it stick: Strategies for effective implementation", talking specifically about good implementation practice in schools. If you missed the chat, or aren't on Twitter, fear not! You can catch up with [...]
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Peter Tymms: “Assessment – an overview”
Here we are again!! This month, we have a podcast with the fabulous Peter Tymms. As well as listening to his dulcet tones, you can learn an awful lot about how the assessment landscape currently sits - both here in the UK and on a wider scale internationally, too. Peter Tymms is Professor at [...]
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Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Sugata Mitra
Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this new podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people, and to allow them to share their stories. We sit [...]
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Alex Quigley: “Evidence-based school improvement”
We're back again with another in our series of podcasts, delivered free to your device! This is the third in our monthly series now, and if you haven't checked out the first two yet, please do. This month, we have a talk by the inimitable Alex Quigley, Director of Huntington Research School in York. [...]
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Tim Oates: “The future of assessment”
We're back again with another in our series of podcasts, delivered free to your device! We were really pleased with the engagement and feedback from Professor Jonathan Sharples' talk last month, so - by popular demand - here we are again! This month, we are delighted to present Tim Oates, Group Director of Assessment [...]
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Prof. Jonathan Sharples – “My vision for an evidence-based school system”
Welcome to the first episode in our new (monthly) podcast series, featuring Jonathan Sharples as our first contributor. Here at EBE, we've been organising talks and interviews, and bridging the gaps between education policy, research and practice, for years now. Spreading the word has been the issue. We got such great feedback about our [...]
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