What works in your primary classroom?
Why
Teaching That Works exists to challenge the idea that there is a single best way to teach. Too much educational discourse focuses on universal answers, quick fixes, or strategies lifted wholesale from different contexts. This site is grounded in the belief that everything works somewhere and nothing works everywhere. Its purpose is to explore teaching approaches through the lens of context, conditions, and professional judgement, rather than promoting one-size-fits-all solutions.
Foundation
This site brings together evidence-informed ideas, classroom examples, and reflective commentary that focus on when and why particular approaches work. Instead of asking “What works?”, it asks better questions: under what conditions does this work, for which learners, and with what adaptations? The aim is not to provide recipes to follow, but thinking tools that help teachers make informed decisions in real classrooms.
You
Teaching That Works is designed to support teachers in making confident, context-sensitive choices about their practice. By foregrounding implementation, learner needs, and classroom realities, it helps you evaluate whether an approach is likely to work somewhere meaningful — in your setting, with your pupils. Rather than replacing professional judgement, the site is intended to sharpen it, helping you adapt ideas thoughtfully rather than adopt them uncritically.