The Components of Direct Instruction
Article: The Components of Direct Instruction Author: Cathy L. Watkins, Timothy A. Slocum Reading Time: 2 hours The purpose of this...
High-Impact Instruction
I have just finished reading High-Impact Instruction by Jim Knight. I received this book as part of the Instructional Coaching Institute...
Seven Myths About Education
Seven Myths about Education is an exploration of some widely held ideas about education, and how they are not true. Daisy Christodoulou...
Dunning-Kruger and Curse of Knowledge
Recently I have been looking into the idea of Cognitive Biases (https://yourbias.is/), both from a personal level and an educational...
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...
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...
There Is No Perfect Teacher (Just a Bunch of Great Ones)
I’ve taught at two schools in my career. The first, in California, had a dozen teachers in total. I adored my colleagues, but we each had...
Principles of Instruction
Article: Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies That All Teachers Should Know Author: Barak Rosenshine Image credit: Oliver...