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The Trouble with Transfer - my #rED16 slides

Sep 10, 2016 | Category: learning

Today saw another triumphant outing for Tom Bennett's grassroots conference, researchED. This year I ran a session investigating the research into how we transfer what we learn between different conte...

#researchED #Paul Kirschner

A conversation about the best way to teach a new concept

Jun 16, 2016 | Category: learning

A few mornings ago, Rufus William got in touch with an interesting request: @LearningSpy fancy doing a quick maths activity? You just need something to write with some paper — Rufus (@RufusWilliam) J...

#congruence #discovery #instruction

What are they learning?

Feb 26, 2016 | Category: learning

Learning is never neutral. Although I have no empirical evidence, I'm pretty sure that it's rare indeed for children - or indeed anyone - to learn nothing in a given situation. My contention is that c...

#English

What every teacher needs to know about... rote learning

Feb 24, 2016 | Category: learning

As per, here's this month's Teach Secondary column for you delight and edification.These days it is rare indeed for children to be taught much by rote, or, to use a less pejorative term, by heart. R...

#rote learning #Teach Secondary

Learning is liminal

Feb 10, 2016 | Category: learning

I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. Tennyson, Ulysses I offered my de...

#Graham Nuthall #liminality #Robert Siegler #mimicry #Victor Turner

What's the starting point for all learning?

Feb 07, 2016 | Category: learning

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious." George Bernard Shaw UPDATED 7th February 6.30pmThis morning in answer to a question about whether children should be tau...

#questioning

Scripts: whose lesson is it anyway?

Jan 31, 2016 | Category: learning

When I was 16, Whose Line Is It Anyway? first aired on UK television. The show, hosted by Clive Anderson, asked four comedians to ad lib responses to various prompts and scenarios, much of it shouted...

#direct instruction #Project Follow Through #Siegfried Engelmann #Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Is it a 'sin' to tell teachers how to teach?

Jan 27, 2016 | Category: learning

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. Samuel Butler According to a recent TES article, Professor John...

Why 'mastery learning' may prove to be a bad idea

Jan 24, 2016 | Category: learning

"It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us." Disraeli What could be wrong with wanting students to master difficult content? Nothing. For the most part...

#mastery

A definition of learning

Jan 28, 2016 | Category: learning

"For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences." Cervantes Learning (n)1....