Archive
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...
Some dichotomies are real: the 'and/or debate'
Dec 06, 2013 |
Category: Featured
I get quite cross when I hear people who really should know better dismissing the knowledge/skills debate as a “mindless dichotomy". It’s not. The ideological opposition between proponents of these vi...
Knowledge or skills?
Sep 11, 2011 |
Category: Featured
Skills, knowledge, who cares? I'm a huge fan of the implementation of Personal Learning and Thinking Skills as part of the English National Curriculum and feel confused and concerned about the curren...
Categories
Tags
Ofsted (62)
Dylan Wiliam (56)
John Hattie (31)
Robert Bjork (29)
marking (27)
feedback (23)
Daniel Willingham (22)
Robert Coe (20)
Carol Dweck (18)
knowledge (17)
lesson observation (16)
Daisy Christodoulou (16)
AfL (16)
Growth mindset (15)
Phil Beadle (13)
Making Kids Cleverer (13)
Graham Nuthall (13)
Sir Michael Wilshaw (13)
SOLO taxonomy (13)
Reading (13)