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Why I struggle with learning objectives and success criteria

Dec 06, 2015 | Category: learning

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.Ralph Waldo Emerson Broadly, I’m in favour of sharing with students the intention behind what they are being asked to do. Anything that adds clarity to the murky...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daisy Christodoulou

What I got up to at the Wellington Festival of Education Part 1

Jun 22, 2014 | Category: learning

Sadly, I missed most of the Friday. I spent the morning speaking at a maths conference (I know, right?) on correcting the mistakes made in the name of ‘numeracy across the curriculum’. If you’re inter...

#AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #Wellington College

Squaring the circle: can learning be easy and hard?

May 11, 2014 | Category: learning

Regular readers will know I've been ploughing a furrow on this question for quite a while now. Last June I synthesised my thinking in this post: Deliberately difficult – why it’s better to make learni...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Robert Bjork #Kris Boulton #Robert Coe #Annie Murphy Paul #Daniel Kahneman

Motivation: when the going gets tough, the tough get going

Aug 26, 2013 | Category: learning

If ever you get embroiled in a discussion on Learning Styles you may well be confronted with the chestnut of motivation.Learning styles, it seems to me, are all about motivation and management, and no...

#motivation #Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #memory

The art of failing

Jul 06, 2012 | Category: learning

Why on earth would we ever want to fail? Failing's bad, right?Obviously getting something wrong, performing poorly and making mistakes is uncomfortable. But these things are a part of life. An importa...

#failure #Dylan Wiliam #public critique #Ron Berger

Learning objectives and why we need 'em

Feb 18, 2012 | Category: learning

I remember the first time I saw a learning objective being used in a lesson. My school had just been placed into Special Measures and things were looking grim. I'd only joined the school a few months...

#Dylan Wiliam #learning objectives #James Michie #Paul Dix #success crieria

The 'practice' of teaching

Jan 16, 2012 | Category: learning

Fewer (activities); Deeper (learning); Better (student outcomes). John Tomsett, Headteacher This is not a blog post proper, just some notes on Hattie's introduction to Visible Learning for Teachers. H...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #learning styles #Visible Learning for Teachers

Why aren't we supposed to teach anymore?

Nov 28, 2011 | Category: learning

[caption id="attachment_725" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Teacher committing the cardinal sin of teaching from the front"][/caption] I read this comment on the Guardian Teacher Network recen...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Guardian Teacher Network #Pose Pause Pounce Bounce #Ross McGill

Forget the answer, what's the question?

Sep 24, 2011 | Category: learning

We all know the value of effective questioning, but should it be the students rather than the teacher doing a bit more of the asking? After reading about Question Formulation Technique (getting studen...

#Of Mice and Men #Dylan Wiliam #Hattie #QFT #Question Formulation Technique #Steinbeck #Tait Coles