The Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit

Abstract

The Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit is an independent resource which provides guidance for teachers and schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. The Toolkit is an accessible summary of educational research. It currently covers 21 topics, each summarised in terms of their potential impact on attainment, the strength of the evidence supporting them, their cost, and their applicability. Just as doctors would not be expected to prescribe treatments without access to medical research, we believe that teachers should be supported with information about what has worked and, just as important, what has not in England and around the world. We hope that the Toolkit will help schools to identify which approaches are the best bets for increasing the attainment of disadvantaged students and which approaches offer less promising chances of success.