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So, I've been reinstated by Twitter

Dec 08, 2016 | Category: Featured

Without a word of explanation, my Twitter account unsuspended itself this evening. In case you didn't get round to noticing, I'd been suspended the day before. Thank you so much to the veritable legio...

So, I've been suspended by Twitter

Dec 07, 2016 | Category: Featured

This afternoon various people started text messaging me to ask why my Twitter account had been suspended. Needless to say, the news came as something of a surprise. No one from Twitter had contacted m...

#Twitter

PISA 2015: some tentative thoughts about successful teaching

Dec 06, 2016 | Category: Featured

Despite all the eminently sensible caveats offered by Sam Freedman, PISA provides a fascinating lens through which to view the world of education. The most interesting of the PISA documents I've had a...

#Greg Ashman #enquiry-based instruction #PISA #teacher directed instruction

Seven Theses on Education

Nov 28, 2016 | Category: Featured

Dennis Hayes, professor of education at Derby University and co-author of The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education recently wrote the following Facebook post: Seven Theses on Education1. Education...

#Dennis Hayes

Can thinking hard be incidental? A conversation with Daniel Willingham

Nov 27, 2016 | Category: Featured

For some time now, Rob Coe has been suggesting that a good proxy for students learning in lessons is that they "have to think hard". This seemed eminently sensible and I've written about this formulat...

#Daniel Willingham #Rob Coe

Context isn't king

Nov 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

It's become quite fashionable recently to say that there's no best way to teach because what works depends on the context in which you teach. This is a considerable improvement on asserting that [inse...

#John Hattie #Greg Ashman #John Donlosky #Lucy Crehan

What do we mean by 'skills'?

Nov 10, 2016 | Category: Featured

Any definition of skills depends on knowledge. Joe Kirby has written persuasively about skills and knowledge forming a double helix - inseparably intertwined and mutually interdependent. This is defin...

#creativity #skills #essay writing #procedural knowledge #propositional knowledge #tacit knowledge

How to observe a lesson

Oct 06, 2016 | Category: Featured

Recently, I was asked by a school to give some feedback on their lesson observation pro forma. My advice was that they shouldn't use it. They were a bit flummoxed (and probably a bit annoyed) as they'...

Why Ofsted inspectors shouldn't give advice

Oct 01, 2016 | Category: Featured

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the recent Learning First conference in Wolverhampton, but I did manage to follow some of the tweets. This one in particular caught my attention: Marilyn Mottram...

#Ofsted

What causes the gender gap in education?

Sep 25, 2016 | Category: Featured

In the 1940s the Belgian philosopher Albert Michotte identified our tendency to believe we could see causality. His book, The Perception of Causality, published in French in 1945 showed how certain ve...

#Albert Michotte #boys underperfomance #Perception of causality