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Better teaching through chemistry?

Sep 14, 2016 | Category: Featured

One of my favourite books of last year was Yuval Noah Harari's magnificent Sapiens. It looks like his new tome, Homo Deus, is going to be just as fascinating if the rest of it lives up to the first co...

#ADHD #Yuval Noah Harari #modafinil #Ritalin

What's the job of a teacher?

Sep 13, 2016 | Category: Featured

One of the sessions I attended at researchED last Saturday was a debate on whether there really is a mental health crisis amongst young people. There were lots of interesting points made and the debat...

#researchED #mental health #social services

Fun is being "killed off"! Really?

Sep 06, 2016 | Category: Featured

Every now and then, children's author Michael Rosen writes a snarky open letter to whomever happens to be education secretary of the day castigating them for his bugbear du jour. His latest offering m...

#Michael Rosen #Justine Greening #tests

Are teachers cursed with knowledge?

Sep 05, 2016 | Category: Featured

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to lack that knowledge. Chip Heath, Made to Stick How much do teachers need to know? In my last post I...

#inverted U hypothesis #Carl Weiman #Greg Ashman #curse of knowledge

Some questions for the College of Teaching

Aug 30, 2016 | Category: Featured

So, plans for the College of Teachers are gathering pace. It increasingly looks like it's going to be a thing, whether teachers want it or not. I'm not against a College per se, but I do have some que...

#College of Teaching #Alison Peacock

Praise for #PsychBook

Aug 13, 2016 | Category: Featured

My new book, co-written with the quite marvellous Nick Rose, has landed. What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology is a whistle-stop tour of what we consider to be the most useful and importan...

Developing expertise #5 Explore connections

Jul 20, 2016 | Category: Featured

This is the fifth post in this series detailing ways teachers might go about training their intuition in order to make better judgements and acquire real expertise. You can read the previous posts her...

Developing expertise #4 Acknowledge emotions

Jul 16, 2016 | Category: Featured

In previous posts I've discussed how creating the right environment, seeking better feedback and creating 'circuit breakers' could help us the develop the kind of expertise required to hone our intuit...

#confirmation bias #backfire effect #mere exposure effect #Robert Zajonc

A response to the Education Select Committee: Why Amanda Spielman should run Ofsted

Jul 07, 2016 | Category: Featured

So. The Education Select Committee has rejected Amanda Spielman as the next Chief Inspector. Andrew Old has already summarised why he feels Amanda would have been a terrific appointment here and I agr...

#Amanda Spielman #Education Select Committee

School improvement: Can you buck the trend?

Jul 04, 2016 | Category: Featured

In my last post I discussed the natural volatility of GCSE results and the predictably random nature of results over the long-term. I ended by saying, "The agenda for school improvement has to move aw...

#King Solomon Academy #Schools Week #Education Datalab #La Retraite Catholic Girls School