Charlotte Caldwell, ELE and part of the English Development Team at Front Lawn Primary Academy, reflects on how using the evidence from the EEF helped developed the teaching of vocabulary across the school.
Navigating your way through a sea of evidence can be a daunting task, but it can reap real rewards for our pupils – helping us to make meaningful improvements to teaching and learning.
But, when considering evidence, it is important to get beneath the surface of it; to focus on the ‘how’ as well as the ‘what’. Asking questions such as, do the principles that underpin this approach – and made it effective in other settings – mean it could be impactful in mine?
Before deciding on a strategy to improve vocabulary teaching across our primary school, we made sure to read widely.
