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Seven tools for thinking #3: The "surely" klaxon

Jun 06, 2016 | Category: Featured

Rumack: Can you fly this plane and land it? Striker: Surely you can't be serious? Rumack: I am serious. And don't call me Shirley. Airplane, 1980 It's natural to want to build consensus. We're all gui...

#Daniel Dennett #bullshit

Seven tools for thinking #2: The principle of charity

Jun 05, 2016 | Category: Featured

Ah! What a divine religion might be found if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith! - Percy Bysshe Shelley A few weeks ago I wrote about the philosopher, Daniel Dennett's recom...

#Daniel Dennett #Anatol Rapoport #principle of charity

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

The limits of growth mindset

May 30, 2016 | Category: psychology

What's the difference between success and failure? Effort, of course! As everyone now knows, all you need to ensure you're a success is a shed-load of hard work and the belief that you can do anything...

#Effort #Growth mindset #practice #K Anders Ericsson

Why I think table top mats are better than wall displays

May 29, 2016 | Category: Featured

A couple of days ago I posted an article exploring why I'm not keen on teaching being expected to spend time putting on displays in their classrooms. This made some people happy :) but a few people we...

#scaffolding #display

What every teacher needs to know about... classroom display

May 26, 2016 | Category: Featured

Once again the finest monthly publication for secondary teachers, Teach Secondary, have demeaned themselves by publishing another of my sloppily put together rants. This month my barrel scraping has r...

#classroom display #Teach Secondary

Coming soon...What every teacher needs to know about psychology

May 25, 2016 | Category: psychology

Over the past few months, Nick Rose and I have been working together on a new book which sets out what, in our admittedly biased opinion, every teacher ought to know from the field of psychology. Luck...

#Nick Rose #What every teacher needs to know about psychology

Triple impact feedback on the EEF marking review

May 24, 2016 | Category: Featured

1.The EEF publish a review of the evidence of marking. 2. I give them some feedback. 3. The EEF respond to my criticisms. 4. Well... we could go on for ever. Feel familiar?James Richardson and Robbie...

#marking #Education Endowment Foundation

Seven tools for thinking #1: Use your mistakes

May 22, 2016 | Category: Featured

"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself." - Daniel Dennett. I've been rereading the philosopher, Daniel Dennett's wonderfully erudite manual for mak...

#Daniel Dennett #folk psychology #mistakes

A marked decline? The EEF's review of the evidence on written marking

May 18, 2016 | Category: assessment

Question: How important is it for teachers to provide written feedback on students' work?Answer: No one knows. This is essentially the substance of the Education Endowment Foundation's long-awaited re...

#marking #EEF