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Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 4: Practise

Jul 04, 2013 | Category: Featured

What does practice make? Well, it turns out that my mum was wrong. Doug Lemov points out in Practice Perfect that practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. What we practise we get good...

#deliberate practice #Ron Berger #Flow #Grit #Doug Lemov

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 3: Scaffold

Jul 02, 2013 | Category: Featured

So, you've explained the new concepts and ideas students will need to know, deconstructed examples so that they know how to use these concepts in practice and you've modelled the process of how an exp...

#Lee Donaghy #scaffolding #academic register #PEE #reciprocal teaching #Vygotsky #zone of proximal development

So, what does 'gifted' mean anyway?

Jun 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

As you may be aware, non-selective secondary schools are failing the 'most able'. How do we know? Because a brand new Ofsted report tells us so. The report's key findings include such revelations as t...

#Ofsted #Tom Bennett #Geoff Barton #Tom Sherrington #G&T

Deliberately difficult - why it's better to make learning harder

Jun 10, 2013 | Category: Featured

The most fundamental goals of education are long-term goals. As teachers and educators, we want targeted knowledge and skills to be acquired in a way that makes them durable and flexible. More specifi...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Kev Bartle #progress #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #Ebbinghaus #New Theory of Disuse #Retrieval induced forgetting

Planning Lessons - lessons I’ve learned from lessons I've taught

Jun 09, 2013 | Category: Featured

This is a summary and a drawing together of several earlier posts. I consider it a refinement of my thinking and something which is painstakingly (and grandiosely) groping its way towards a total phil...

#Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #Pareto #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #DIRT

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 1: Explain

Jun 26, 2013 | Category: Featured

"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process."EB White There are some definite pit falls to avoid in explaining things to kids. The biggest c...

#Daniel Willingham #David Thomas #Kris Boulton #Mr Men #The Simpsons #Wittgenstein #zooming in and out

Great teaching happens in cycles - the teaching sequence for developing independence

Jun 24, 2013 | Category: Featured

Last year I wrote a post called The Anatomy of an Outstanding Lesson, which has become by far my most viewed post with almost 10,000 page views. Clearly teachers are hungry for this kind of thing. But...

#Ofsted #explaining #modelling #practise #scaffolding

What is meta-cognition and can we teach it?

Jun 01, 2013 | Category: Featured

Meta-cognition is one of those terms that gets bandied about in educational circles as if we all know exactly what it is. And we do: it's...er...thinking about thinking, isn't it?Ever since the Educat...

#Daniel Willingham #cognitive psychology #Education Endowment Foundation #meta-cognition

This is how I work

May 27, 2013 | Category: Featured

I was very excited to hear the accusation that I am (or might be) leading a 'cult of personality', whatever that means. To that end, and just in case anyone is interested, Dai Barnes has posted this i...

Does dyslexia exist?

May 26, 2013 | Category: Featured

Schools are packed to the gunnels (whatever they are) with students diagnosed with dyslexia. And, of the hundreds of dyslexic students I've taught, many have languished helplessly in the doldrums of i...

#dyslexia #Julian Elliott