Make It Stick
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning is an excellent introduction into the many areas of cognitive science that sheds light...
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...
The Science of Learning
Article: The Science of Learning Author: Deans for Impact Article Reading Time: 20 minutes Summary The Science of Learning is a summary...
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...
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...
Does engagement actually matter?
Suggesting that student engagement might actually be a bad thing tend to get certain people’s dander up. There was a mild spat recently...
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...
Thinking Activities
I recently came across a couple of excellent templates for some brilliant activities to help get students thinking more deeply about the...