Teaching That Sticks: What Really Works in the Classroom and WHY

This five-part practical teaching series is designed to sharpen everyday classroom practice. Whether you’re new to the classroom or an experienced teacher looking to refine your approach, each session explores a core aspect of effective instruction—from assessment for learning and questioning to adaptive teaching and meaningful feedback. Grounded in research and classroom-tested strategies, this series will help you engage learners, check understanding, and move learning forward.

How to Use This Webinar Series
Use this webinar series alongside the CPD packs provided on the Leadership Hub to support in-house training and professional development. You can deliver the content as part of whole-school CPD or simply share the videos with colleagues and use them to spark meaningful teaching and learning conversations in your department meetings.

🎥 On-Demand Video Series (Members Only)

Video 1: Assessment for Learning: Checking Understanding and Moving Learning Forward

Video 2: Engaging Passive Learners: Reignite Participation and Focus

Video 3: Asking Better Questions: Strategies from Rosenshine and Sherrington.

Video 4: Teach Everyone, Stretch Everyone: Adaptive Teaching That Works

Video 5: Marking That Matters: Making Feedback Clear, Focused, and Actionable

Use a range of formative assessment strategies to check understanding and adapt teaching in real time.
Apply techniques to re-engage passive learners and increase classroom participation.
Design and deliver purposeful, high-impact questions using insights from Rosenshine and Sherrington.
Implement adaptive teaching strategies that support and stretch all learners.
Deliver feedback that is clear, focused, and leads to meaningful pupil progress.

Isabella Wallace

With her critically acclaimed Pimp Your Lesson! “Talk-Less Teaching” and “Best of the Best: Practical Classroom Guides”. Isabella is a leading light in educational reform and teacher improvement. She focuses on improving the quality of teaching and learner progression and delivers sessions that are highly interactive and relevant to teaching in the real classroom.

Isabella has extensive experience as both a teacher and leader, and the accessibility of her highly sought-after training reflects this. She has worked closely with education authorities to develop literacy teaching provision, and to set up, manage and monitor staff coaching systems in schools.

Thanks to her charisma, enthusiasm and knowledge of what works best, Isabella has delivered training across four different continents and is one of the most prolific education consultants working in the UK today.