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Whose research is it anyway?

Apr 22, 2015 | Category: Featured

The TES reports today that Professor Hattie, the crown prince of education research, isn't much keen on teachers conducting research in their classrooms. Apparently he thinks we should leave education...

#John Hattie

Is education a zero-sum game?

Apr 18, 2015 | Category: Featured

Opportunity makes a thief.Francis Bacon A zero-sum game is one in which there is a winner and a loser; if you haven't won, you've lost. The term derives from game theory and economics and describes...

#differentiation #Roger Scruton #zero-sum game

Curiosity: the knowledge gap

Apr 13, 2015 | Category: Featured

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson We're all, to some extent, naturally curious - we long to unpick out that which is my...

Back to school

Mar 28, 2015 | Category: Featured

In December 2013 I left the classroom for a life of swashbuckling and adventure. There were as many push factors as there were pull and I was very nervous about whether I'd be able to make a living -...

#Swindon Academy

NEW BOOK: Foreword by Robert A Bjork

Mar 25, 2015 | Category: Featured

As some readers will no doubt be aware, I've written a new book. I've been fascinated by Robert Bjork's research into learning and memory ever since first encountering it back in February 2013, so of...

#Robert Bjork

How could we improve accountability?

Mar 23, 2015 | Category: Featured

If accountability is the solution, what's the problem?It's become axiomatic that you can't remove accountability from education and that teachers must always be held to account. Why? Because they're f...

#accountability #performance management

What might be a good proxy for learning?

Mar 22, 2015 | Category: Featured

Professor Rob Coe's speech, From Evidence to Great Teaching, at the ASCL conference last Friday seemed to generate quite a bit of energy on Twitter, as did Carl Hendrick's post on engagement. Coe has...

#performance #Robert Coe #poor proxies

Learning is invisible - my slides from #LEF15

Mar 01, 2015 | Category: Featured

For all those who asked for my slides after my presentation of the London Festival of Education at the IOE, here you go: #LFE15 Learning is invisible from David Didau For all those who weren't ther...

#liminality #Robert Bjork #London Festival of Education

Should group work be imposed?

Feb 15, 2015 | Category: Featured

I recently posted some thoughts on what group work is and isn't good for. At no point did I say it was good for nothing (although predictably my opinion was caricatured as 'hating' group work) and I h...

#group work #Cristina Milos #Education Endowment Foundation #Robert Slavin

Why (the hell) should students work in groups?

Feb 11, 2015 | Category: Featured

In a recent TES article James Mannion and Neil Mercer make the following claim: In not using group work, students are denied the chance to develop skills that can not only help them perform better in...

#groupwork #James Mannion #Neil Mercer #Robert Slavin