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Has lesson observation become the new Brain Gym?

Nov 16, 2013 | Category: training

I've thought a lot about lesson observation over the past couple of years and have come to the conclusion that it is broken. What is most worrying is that it is almost universally accepted as the best...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #Joe Kirby #Chris Moyes #lesson observation #Mary Myatt #Matt O'Leary #Robert Coe

Are all difficulties desirable?

Oct 05, 2013 | Category: Featured

I was aghast to read an extract from Malcolm Gladwell's new book, David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits And The Art Of Battling Giants in The Guardian yesterday. Not because it's bad, but because it's...

#stress #Malcolm Gladwell #John Tomsett #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #dyslexia #David and Goliath

Testing & assessment - have we been doing the right things for the wrong reasons?

Jun 16, 2013 | Category: assessment

A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive repetition. I mean that in learning (by heart, for example), when we almost know the piece, it pays be...

#AfL #Robert Bjork #Daisy Christodoulou #retrieval #testing

Deliberately difficult - why it's better to make learning harder

Jun 10, 2013 | Category: Featured

The most fundamental goals of education are long-term goals. As teachers and educators, we want targeted knowledge and skills to be acquired in a way that makes them durable and flexible. More specifi...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Kev Bartle #progress #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #Ebbinghaus #New Theory of Disuse #Retrieval induced forgetting

Planning Lessons - lessons I’ve learned from lessons I've taught

Jun 09, 2013 | Category: Featured

This is a summary and a drawing together of several earlier posts. I consider it a refinement of my thinking and something which is painstakingly (and grandiosely) groping its way towards a total phil...

#Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #Pareto #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #DIRT

Redesigning a curriculum

Mar 25, 2013 | Category: English

Effective reform must start with the understanding that the curriculum is the central focus and the central business of schools. Effective curricula are the sina que non of the system that is capable...

#grammar #Daisy Christodolou #Robert Bjork #cultrural capital #desirable difficulties

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

The problem with progress Part 2: Designing a curriculum for learning

Feb 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

Can progress be both rapid and sustained? We start out with the aim of making the important measurable and end up making only the measurable important.Dylan Wiliam [caption id="attachment_6068" align=...

#Will Thalheimer #Graham Nuthall #Maurice Holt #progress #Robert Bjork #interleaving #Slow Education #Spaced learning

The problem with progress Part 1: learning vs performance

Feb 12, 2013 | Category: Featured

What's more important? Learning or progress?[caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignleft" width="150"] Take that progress! We want learning[/caption]We've known since the publication of Ofsted's Mov...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Kev Bartle #liminality #progress #Robert Bjork