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Ability is the consequence not the cause of what children learn

Jun 13, 2017 | Category: Featured

The evidence on ability grouping appears relatively well-known. The EEF Toolkit summarise the research findings thus: Overall, setting or streaming appears to benefit higher attaining pupils and be de...

#Dylan Wiliam #setting #EEF Toolkit

Problems with the 'zone of proximal development'

Jan 13, 2017 | Category: Featured

It's hard to have a discussion about learning without someone sooner or later chipping in with the Russian developmental psychologist, Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD) to support thei...

#Dylan Wiliam #Vygotsky #zone of proximal development #Seth Chaiklin

Endorsements - what are they worth?

May 05, 2015 | Category: Featured

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it “recognition”!William James You might not have noticed (I've been the...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Wilingham #Robert Bjork #What If Everything You Knew About Teaching Was Wrong?

The Unit of Education

Jan 08, 2015 | Category: Featured

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.Lord Kelvin A lot of education research is an attempt to measure the effects of teaching (or teachers) on learning (or pupils.) But is this actually pos...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Robert Coe #research #Bloom

Forget about assessing learning after lessons

Sep 19, 2014 | Category: Featured

Today I not only have my first ever article published by the TES, it's made the front page!Those of you familiar with my output will recognise the arguments and be familiar with the thinking that's le...

#Dylan Wiliam #TES #Robert Bjork

Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

Practical differentiation: high expectations and the art of making mistakes

Feb 01, 2014 | Category: Featured

Differentiation? I hate the word as I hate Hell, all ludicrous bureaucracy, and thee!Er... Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Differentiation is one of the darkest arts in teaching. The generally accepted...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #differentiation #marking #Tom Sherrington #success criteria

Force fed feedback: is less more?

Jan 26, 2014 | Category: Featured

It is commonly and widely accepted that feedback is the best, brightest and shiniest thing we can be doing as teachers, and the more of it the better. Ever since Prof Hattie published Visible Learning...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork #Andy Day

Is failure just a lack of practice?

Sep 28, 2013 | Category: Featured

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho!You must learn to fail intelligently. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. One fails fo...

#failure #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Samuel Beckett #Thomas Edison #Andy Weir #Taylor Mali

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