[ Join us at the Great Teaching Conference, in partnership with Evidence Based Education.

Great Teaching, Better Learning Conference

Join us for an engaging and insightful session focused on enhancing teaching practices and improving learning outcomes. This conference, hosted in partnership with Evidence Based Education, features inspiring keynote speakers, interactive workshops, and practical sessions that will help deepen understanding and refine classroom practices.
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Great Teaching, Better Learning Conference
Key details
Suitable for
All roles
When
Tuesday 25th February 2025
12 - 4pm
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Where
Red Kite Learning Trust, Harrogate
Price
Free
  • Agenda
  • Speakers
  • Partner
12 - 12:30pm

Registration and light lunch

12:30pm - 1:15pm

Keynote Address:
"What Makes Great Teaching?"
Speaker: Professor Stuart Kime
Great Teaching: naming it, seeing it, and getting more of it

1:15pm - 2:15pm

Concurrent Workshops (Session 1):

  1. Workshop A: Purpose and belonging: how can teachers and leaders promote learner motivation?

Speaker: Prof Stuart Kime
Description: For many years, cognitive aspects of learning (attention, working memory, cognitive load...) have received a lot of attention in many schools. In this workshop, Stuart will take a different approach, exploring with you the affective side of learning, focusing in particular on the feelings of 'wanting to learn' that are a product of student motivation. Once he has set the scene with what the best available research evidence in this area tells us, he'll move on to share some practical, evidence-based techniques that teachers can use to build feelings of motivation for learning in their own students.

  1. Workshop B: Using Questioning to activate students' hard thinking

Speaker: Matt McGinlay
Questioning is one of the most powerful set of strategies that a teacher can employ. It's something that many teachers do very frequently over the course of a lesson. But, as we'll explore in this workshop, effective questioning takes more than just asking questions. We'll see how questioning not just serves as a way to aid in the retention of knowledge, but as a way for teachers to assess their students' understanding. After discussing the active ingredients of what makes for effective questioning, we'll explore some strategies that any teacher can adapt to any context.

2:15 - 2:30pm

Break and refreshments

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Concurrent Workshops (Session 2): Participants attend the alternate workshop to ensure exposure to both sessions.

3:30pm - 3:45pm

Closing remarks from organisers
Great Teaching Toolkit, pilot and next steps.

Stuart Kime
[ Evidence Based Education
Stuart Kime
Stuart Kime's work at EBE focuses on innovating pragmatic and evidence-based professional learning experiences for educators.
He is a qualified teacher of English, and worked as a classroom teacher, middle leader and senior leader in secondary schools between 2001 and 2011. Stuart studied for his doctorate with Profs Rob Coe and Steve Higgins at Durham University, developing interests in the areas of evaluation design and teachers’ professional learning. In 2014, he took on the role of Policy Fellow in the UK Government’s Department for Education.
Stuart currently holds the title of International Visiting Professor in the Hector Research Institute for Education Sciences and Psychology at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. He is Chair of the Partnership Enhancement Board at the University of Teesside, a member of the Editorial Board of Impact, and serves on the International Advisory Board for the German federal project to enhance teacher development, lernen:digital.
Matt McGinlay
[ Evidence Based Education
Matt McGinlay
Matt McGinlay is responsible for the development of courses and programmes in the Great Teaching Toolkit, including the Assessment Lead Programme. As one of the team advising schools on their use of the Great Teaching Toolkit, Matt provides a truly pragmatic approach when discussing, training or writing about how pedagogy can drive school improvement.
As a former Science teacher, Matt is also Evidence Based Education’s in-house expert on standardised assessment data, having delivered sessions both nationally and internationally.
Evidence Based Education
[ In partnership with Evidence Based Education
Evidence Based Education is a teacher development, school improvement and research organisation, and the home of the Great Teaching Toolkit, a personalised professional development platform.

More than 14,000 teachers in hundreds of schools around the world trust the GTT to help their great teachers become even greater, and to drive sustained and sustainable school improvement.
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