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What do teachers believe?

Mar 16, 2017 | Category: research

It's well-established that various 'myths' about how students' learn are remarkably persistent in the face of contradictory evidence. In 2014, Paul Howard-Jones' article, Neuroscience and education: m...

#learning styles #Jo Boaler #neuromyths #Paul Howard-Jones

Evidence and disadvantage: How useful is the EEF Toolkit?

Feb 26, 2017 | Category: research

Although everyone's education is important, the education of disadvantaged students is, arguably, of much greater importance than that of students from more advantaged backgrounds. The more privileged...

#learning styles #John Tomsett #Education Endowment Foundation #Greg Ashman #ED Hirsch Jr #Sir Kevan Collins

Just semantics? Subtle but important misunderstandings about learning styles, modalities, and preferences

Feb 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

This is a guest blog from Yana Weinstein, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, one of the masterminds behind the wonderful Learning Scientists site.Scientists get quite attached...

#learning styles #working memory #long-term memory #Yana Weinstein

One more nail in the Learning Styles coffin...

Feb 19, 2016 | Category: myths

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth.Shakespeare, Macbeth Just when you think you've found a way to put...

#learning styles #working memory

The Learning Styles myth debunked on the back of an envelope

Feb 18, 2016 | Category: myths

"You don’t have to believe in learning styles theories to appreciate differences among kids, to hold an egalitarian attitude in the midst of such differences, and to try to foster such attitudes in st...

#learning styles

In praise of signposts

Oct 31, 2015 | Category: research

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.C. S. Lewis If you're not sure which way to go, a sign pos...

#learning styles #VAK

It's the bell curve, stupid!

Jun 10, 2015 | Category: research

Like an ultimate fact without any cause, the individual outcome of a measurement is, however, in general not comprehended by laws. This must necessarily be the case. Wolfgang Pauli A month or so bac...

#learning styles #feedback #Steve Higgins #CEM #EEF Toolkit #normal distribution curves

Why do we overestimate the importance of differences?

Nov 05, 2014 | Category: learning

"For a difference to be a difference, it must make a difference." William James We're all different. Obviously. Just like snowflakes, human beings are all special, unique and entirely individual. B...

#differentiation #learning styles #cognitive bias #Carl Weiman

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

Some thoughts on Learning Styles

Dec 05, 2011 | Category: learning

The rusting can of worms that is Learning Styles has been prised open again and the wriggling mess is crawling all over the educational twittersphere. And on that note I will stop extending the metaph...

#AfL #Ian Gilbert #learning styles #Bill Boyd #Daniel Wilingham #Old Andrew #VAK