🗣️ Do you want to know how to structure classroom talk to strengthen metacognition?
Try this:
- Pick one moment (plan, monitor, or evaluate)
- Model your thinking aloud
- Use 2–3 prompt questions to guide pupil talk
Use our new practitioner tool, editable for your context.
🔗 tinyurl.com/ajv67jv2
Check out the blog below, introducing the @theeef.bsky.social's new 'Check.Adapt' resource - a practical tool designed to help teachers respond to pupil learning with effective, targeted feedback and clear next steps.
🎧 New episode of Evidence into Action out now!
We’re exploring metacognition and its evolving role in classrooms with @beverleyjj.bsky.social, Tom Colquhoun of @somersetrs.bsky.social and Emily Smeaton of North Yorkshire Coast research School.
🎙️ Don’t miss it: tinyurl.com/2n2bnvak
💡 How do you know if pupils really understand a new concept?
Our new resource helps teachers notice understanding in the moment and give targeted, effective feedback to support every pupil’s learning.
Download the editable template and make every lesson count.
👉 tinyurl.com/22268b6d
A great opportunity for colleagues in the primary and secondary school sectors to contribute and shape the work of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) via our EEF Exchange.
Find out more and get involved below! 👇
@theeef.bsky.social
School teachers — we'd love to hear from you 🧠📚
You make decisions every day about what works. Help shape the evidence behind them.
Join EEF Exchange to share what matters in practice, answer quick questions, and get early access to our resources.
Sign up: ow.ly/KKSJ50YgtXe
🚨 Join our 16-19 team!
We’re currently looking for a Senior Programme Manager.
If you’re passionate about improving outcomes through evidence, we’d love to hear from you by 22 February.
Find out more about working at the EEF and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4u5kp76d
Secondary schools: build evidence on pupil wellbeing!
Join our trial of Place2Be's Learning Together for Mental Health.
A whole-school approach using restorative practice + pupil–staff action groups, evaluated by Ipsos in the UK, Anna Freud
👉 tinyurl.com/hh2ac4xf
Reading fluency isn’t just speed — it’s accuracy, expression & understanding 📚✨
Our resources:
1️⃣ The Reading House– model & diagnostic tool
2️⃣ Fluency tools – glossary, misconceptions & Readers’ Theatre
3️⃣ Guidance KS1–2 – repeated reading, prosody & word knowledge
🔗 ow.ly/NFnm50Yc7Gs
Grammar isn’t about naming terms — it’s a shared language for improving writing ✍️
Focus on:
• Adverbials for cohesion
• Nominalisation for academic tone
• Subordinating conjunctions for complex ideas
Discover more with @greenshawrs.bsky.social
👉 tinyurl.com/5azeza46
🚀 Educators in Scotland: Become a Research Evidence Champion!
Help make research evidence relevant, accessible & actionable in Scottish schools. Shape resources, model practice & support the Evidence Hub.
Apply: 10 Feb – 2 Mar 2026
Info webinar: 18 Feb, 4pm
👉 Apply now: tinyurl.com/bdhwdd5e
Early years settings: strengthen maths practice 🔢
Join Maths Champions from @ndnatalk.bsky.social — fully funded by the DfE.
Children in participating settings made 3 months’ extra progress in maths & language on average.
Open to PVIs, maintained, & school nurseries.
👉 tinyurl.com/4xcc7n8r
Primary schools 📣
@cttr-ucl.bsky.social & Chartered College of Teaching (funded by EEF) are running a School Choices evaluation — a school-level trial testing whether offsite PPA improves wellbeing, job satisfaction and retention.
Help shape evidence on teacher retention.
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📚 Early vocabulary matters!
Use explicit and implicit teaching, keep it joyful and engaging, and give children repeated, meaningful encounters with new words. These practices support early language development and can help children make the most of learning opportunities.
tinyurl.com/3uv3p8xf
🏠 Our Reading House has been refreshed — with a stronger emphasis on practice.
With classroom insights, videos and practical tools to support effective reading instruction.
#NationalStorytellingWeek reminds of the role of language and comprehension in reading.
Read more: tinyurl.com/nhh8wbbm
📢 Practitioners in Scotland 👋
We’re strengthening evidence use in Scottish schools to improve outcomes for children and young people impacted by poverty.
Got a few minutes? Your insight can help shape practical resources for educators across Scotland 👇
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Teachers — want real-time insight into student understanding? Try hinge questions.
A hinge question is a multiple-choice question asked at a key moment in a lesson to check whether pupils are ready to move on.
A simple but powerful formative assessment tool.
Read more: tinyurl.com/ad8mcyzj
📊 Calling research teams! Apply to evaluate the scale‑up of Maths Champions — a programme supporting early years practitioners to strengthen maths skills. We’re commissioning an impact evaluation using administrative data & quasi‑experimental design.
Apply by: 13 Feb 👉 tinyurl.com/3su6atwv
📘 New 16–19 PD blogs from our Evidence Partner Colleges:
• Middlesbrough – PD in daily practice
• TRC – 4 Ts: Time, Trust, Tools, Tracking
• Exeter – KEEP framework
• New City – metacognition for resits
• ELLG – CPD systems
• Truro & Penwith – PD & wellbeing
Read now: tinyurl.com/yj9w5scx
We believe the best way to improve teaching and learning is to make sure that the education sector has trustworthy and actionable information about how to boost outcomes.
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How well you do at school shouldn’t be determined by how much your parents earn.
That’s why we work to transform education outcomes for the children and young people who need it most.
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Secondary #schools can apply to join 3 new @theeef.bsky.social funded trials testing adventure learning, restorative practices & #wellbeing programmes. Low‑cost places available with deadlines in late May. Details here. buff.ly/w5mWNLx #EEF #mentalhealth #teachers
Primary #schools are invited to join 3 new @theeef.bsky.social funded trials, including peer-tutoring for reading, retrieval practice in science & offsite PPA. Free or low‑cost places available with deadlines from April. Details here: buff.ly/XHRxDds #EEF #education
We’re funding ready-to-evaluate programmes that support children & young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
🔹 Early years: pre-Reception maths
🔹 16–19: vocational & technical education
Deadline: 11am, Wed 11 March 2026
🎓 Free applicant webinars in Feb
Apply: tinyurl.com/mr7c6928
PALS-UK is also an EEF Promising Programme, having shown positive impact on attainment in previous independent trials.
🗓 Sign-up by: 18 May 2026
📍 Regions: North West, South West, West Midlands (England)
👉 Register your interest: tinyurl.com/bdds8x58
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