A full class working busily, quietly and attentively feels like a successful lesson. But visible behaviour is an unreliable gauge of learning: these are professor Rob Coe's poor proxies for learning. Learning only happens when students have to think hard.
Tick the statements below that you recognise from your own lessons (be honest, nobody is watching). At the bottom you will see which signals you may be trusting too much, and which strategy of formative action will help you most.
15 recognisable situations - tick what matches your lessons.
Based on the poor proxies for learning by Rob Coe (What Makes Great Teaching?, Sutton Trust 2014; Improving Education, 2013), the one-pager by Jamie Lee Clark, Daniel Willingham (Why Don't Students Like School?, 2010) and Kirschner, Sweller & Clark (2006). Your answers are only stored in your own browser.