Improving Teaching and Learning in Schools: Turning principles into practice

Improving learning by effective teaching is the core business of schools and all education policy and innovations in practice should support the realisation of this main aim. Much is known about what constitutes effective teaching and learning but implementation often falls short because the changes in beliefs, practices and roles that this demands can be challenging, especially in seemingly risk-averse contexts. This book provides a framework, informed by sound research, to give confidence and guide teachers and schools to review and develop their practice for the benefit of their students. It provides a concise synthesis and overview of the main findings of the 22 schools projects, and related thematic work, within the Teaching and Learning Research Programme, the largest co-ordinated programme of educational research ever conducted in the UK. By using the TLRP’s ten principles as an accessible structure, it locates these insights within the wider international field of research and scholarship and draws out implications both for education policy and the practice of teachers and school leaders. The ten principles cluster under four main headings, which cover the whole spectrum of vital considerations related to teaching and Whilst being a substantial and wide-ranging book in its own right, it also acts as a gateway to other outputs from TLRP research, including other books within the Improving Learning series, which are both high in research quality and high in practical relevance.