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Modelling and observation: a low threat model for teacher development

Oct 07, 2018 | Category: training

For some years now I've been of the opinion that while lesson observations can be useful learning opportunities the person doing the observation learns far more than the person being observed. This is...

#Daisy Christodoulou #whole class feedback

5 things every new (secondary) teacher should know about writing

Sep 01, 2016 | Category: training

Academic success is dependent on students being able to communicate their understanding of a subject and, sooner or later, that communication will be written. For many secondary teachers writing is so...

#writing

5 things every new (secondary) teacher should know about reading

Aug 31, 2016 | Category: training

Reading's a funny old business. Generally, secondary school teachers expect kids to come with a pre-loaded reading module. If they have it, all well and good. If they don't, we're stuffed. Luckily, t...

#Reading

Developing expertise #3: Circuit breakers

Jul 01, 2016 | Category: training

We've already seen how creating the right environment and seeking better feedback might help us the develop the kind of expertise required to make genuinely intuitive judgements and this post I'll dis...

#expertise

Developing expertise #2 - Seek feedback

Jun 30, 2016 | Category: training

In my previous post I suggested the first step for teachers to develop expertise was to find ways to change the environment so that the feedback we get is unbiased. In this post we will consider why m...

#Gary Klein

Developing expertise #1 Create the right environment

Jun 29, 2016 | Category: training

In this post I discussed why teachers' experience might not translate directly into expertise. This is the first of a series exploring some of the different ways we could increase the likelihood that...

#multiple choice questions

Developing intuition: when can you trust your gut?

Jun 26, 2016 | Category: training

At the talk I gave on intuition at Wellington College's Education Festival on Thursday, I ended up not using the slides I'd prepared and wandering a bit off topic. Here follows what I'd planned to say...

#practice #Robin Hogarth #Gary Klein #expertise #K Anders Ericsson

Top Gun for Teachers

Jun 01, 2016 | Category: training

On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men...

#Doug Lemov #teacher training #K Anders Ericsson

Can anyone teach? Well, that depends on what you think education is for

Jan 05, 2016 | Category: training

In a fascinating series of posts, Nick Rose has discussed to what extent teaching is a natural ability and how far it might be described as an 'artificial' science. In The ‘artificial science’ of tea...

#Nick Rose #folk psychology

Questions about questioning: just how important is it?

Feb 16, 2014 | Category: training

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”Nietzsche It's a little tiresome, but I feel I must preface this by saying that these are just my thoughts. I'm not claiming anyone is wrong (or...

#questioning #Kris Boulton