How Knowledge Helps
Article: How Knowledge Helps Author: Daniel T. Willingham Article Reading Time: 20 minutes (11 pages) "It's true that knowledge gives...
Making Every Lesson Count
This post is a summary of the book Making Every Lesson Count by Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby. The book aims to provide a set of...
10 Silver Arrows
Silver Arrows? It’s very hard to change your practice. We’re all so busy, very often it is difficult to create space to fully explore a...
A simple but effective use for Google Docs in class
Google Docs is a very powerful suite of software, and there are many great uses in the classroom. The real power over the more...
Checking for Recall and Understanding
I would say that this is often one of the weakest areas of practice in teaching in relation to how important it is: checking that...
Why formative assessment matters
The memory of a chess master is both astonishing and limited. Masters can take in and remember game situations at a glance; novices...
Inclusion and the Big Ship
Type the word ‘inclusion’ into google scholar and you’ll get a bazillion hits...it has been a buzz word for more than two decades in some...
Motivation in class
How do we motivate students in the classroom? I think most teachers would agree that motivation plays a huge part in education, and that...
Cognitive Load Theory: Research that teachers really need to understand
Article: Cognitive Load Theory: Research that teachers really need to understand Author: Centre for Education Statistics an Evaluation,...
20 Years of Educational Fads
Over the past 20 years, what do you think teachers have wasted their time doing most? I thought I’d share some education-hearsay – noun:...