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Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

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

Intuition vs evidence: the power of prediction

May 08, 2014 | Category: myths

I wrote earlier in the week about why, despite it's limitations, research is better than a hunch. Since then, I've been reading Daniel Willingham's article on Real Clear Education; he says that it's n...

#Daniel Willingham #praise #Richard Wiseman #Carl Weiman #physics #research

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 problem with fun

Aug 22, 2013 | Category: learning

Getting students engaged so that they can be taught something seems much less effective than getting them engaged by teaching them something that engages them.Dylan Wiliam Could fun be the enemy of le...

#John Hattie #Daniel Willingham #fun #memory

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 1: Explain

Jun 26, 2013 | Category: Featured

"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process."EB White There are some definite pit falls to avoid in explaining things to kids. The biggest c...

#Daniel Willingham #David Thomas #Kris Boulton #Mr Men #The Simpsons #Wittgenstein #zooming in and out

What is meta-cognition and can we teach it?

Jun 01, 2013 | Category: Featured

Meta-cognition is one of those terms that gets bandied about in educational circles as if we all know exactly what it is. And we do: it's...er...thinking about thinking, isn't it?Ever since the Educat...

#Daniel Willingham #cognitive psychology #Education Endowment Foundation #meta-cognition

The problem with progress Part 3: Designing lessons for learning

Feb 16, 2013 | Category: Featured

Over my last couple of posts I've suggested that you can't see learning in lessons, you can only infer it from students' performance. This means that as a teacher, when you get students to respond to...

#Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #hinge questions #progress #Robert Bjork #concept maps

How should we teach reading?

Feb 29, 2012 | Category: English

A few months ago I posted a piece in which Roy Blatchford (founder of The National Education Trust) outlined his manifesto for ensuring that every child gets at least a C grade in English. But, readin...

#Daniel Willingham #EB Hirsch #Reading #reading strategies

Hexagonal Learning

Jan 28, 2012 | Category: English

The mantra of all successful lesson observations these days is that students should be seen to be making progress. Perhaps the best way to show that you’re having an impact on their knowledge and unde...

#Geoff Petty #Tait Coles #Daniel Willingham #Carol Ann Duffy #Chris Harte #Damian Clark #hexagons #Macbeth #Simon Armitage #SOLO