What's the purpose of school
Education is ideological. Everyone involved in education has their own opinions on the main purpose of school. When people disagree on...
50 Great Activities For Any Classroom
A few years ago I wrote a book on activities to use in the classroom. I have run an INSET on this theme several times since being at...
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...
Retrieval Practice
Video from https://www.retrievalpractice.org/ Retrieval practice is a strategy to help improve learning. In it's simplest form, it is the...
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...