The EEF is working with the Department for Education (DfE) in 2021 – 2022 to expand its work supporting schools to access evidence-informed programmes. Funded through the DfE’s Accelerator Fund, the activity will build on the EEF’s work to ensure that more schools can benefit from these programmes.
Activity is focused on three regions selected by the DfE: the Regional School Commissioner regions of the North, East Midlands & Humber, and West Midlands.
As part of this work, eight projects are now recruiting early years, primary, secondary and post-16 settings. These include trials of educational approaches showing promise, as well widening access to existing effective programmes so that more schools can access them.
Four trials are currently recruiting settings:
- Learning Language and Loving It: Testing the impact of a training programme for Early Years practitioners to promote language and early literacy.
- English Mastery: Testing the impact of a knowledge-rich Key Stage 3 English curriculum.
- Peer Assisted Learning strategies: Testing the impact of a 20-week structured paired reading intervention to improve reading fluency and comprehension for Year 5 pupils.
- The 5Rs approach to GCSE Maths resits: Testing the impact of a programme focusing on key GCSE maths content and revision techniques for pupils resitting their exam.
Four programmes, that have been shown to be effective in previous EEF trials, are being made available at a subsidised rate for schools:
- 1stClass@Number: A small-group intervention delivered by teaching assistants to support pupils struggling with numeracy in Year 2.
- Embedding Formative Assessment: A professional development programmeA programme is a package of support, including professional development, that helps early years educators to improve particular areas of practice and children’s outcomes. to improve formative assessment strategies across secondary schools.
- Reciprocal Reading: A structured approach to teaching strategies at KS2 that students can use to improve their reading comprehension.
- Switch On Reading: An intensive one-to-one, daily, 10-week literacy intervention delivered by teaching assistants to improve Year 7 and 8 pupils’ reading.
Schools now can sign up to take part and receive educational programmes of promise at a subsidised rate and contribute to the evidence base around what works in education.
Further information on the activity being undertaken through the Accelerator Fund is available here.
Professor Becky Francis, Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said:
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