Quality Teaching Resources

Guidance for Quality Teaching for school leaders and teachers

These resources provide a consistent guide for school leaders and teachers. They identify evidence-based practises to support:

  • curriculum delivery
  • assessment design
  • pedagogical practices.

Learners First: A Pedagogical Framework (PDF, 6.7MB)

This document is for school leaders to support professional dialogue, design and practice of quality teaching in schools.

Learners First: A Pedagogical Framework (PDF, 6.7MB)

Department for Education, Children and Young People Assessment Strategy 2020–2023 (PDF, 3.9MB)

This document, and the actions it contains, supports a unified, system wide and quality approach to assessment design and practice.

Department for Education, Children and Young People Assessment Strategy 2020–2023 (PDF, 3.9MB)

Systematic Curriculum Delivery – A guide for school leaders (PDF, 6.3MB)

This document provides a clear guide for schools to translate the curriculum to their context, supporting personalisation, depth and rigour over breadth.

Systematic Curriculum Delivery – A guide for school leaders (PDF, 6.3MB

Quality Teaching Guide: Literacy (Staff access only)

This resource provides system wide guidance for the quality teaching of literacy. The focus of the Quality Teaching Guide: Literacy is on the practices, strategies and approaches which will support learners across all year levels.

Quality Teaching Guide: Literacy (Staff access only)