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20 psychological principles for teachers #3 Development

May 27, 2015 | Category: psychology

This is the third in a series of posts unpicking the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching And Learning. This time it’s the turn of Principle 3: Students’ cognitive development and learning...

#Jean Piaget #cognitive development #Judith RIch Harris

20 psychological principles for teachers #2 Prior knowledge

May 26, 2015 | Category: psychology

This is the second in a series of posts unpicking the Top 20 Principles From Psychology For Pre-k–12 Teaching And Learning. This time it's the turn of Principle 2 – What students already know affect...

#liminality #Threshold concepts #misconceptions #prior knowledge #Top 20 psychological principles

20 psychological principles for teachers #1 Mindsets

May 25, 2015 | Category: psychology

We are what we believe we are.Benjamin Cardozo A few weeks ago I posted a brief summary of The Coalition for Psychology for Schools and Education's report, Top 20 Principles From Psychology For Pre-...

#Growth mindset

Is it possible to get assessment right?

May 23, 2015 | Category: assessment

No.After my last blog on how to get assessment wrong, various readers got in touch to say, OK smart arse, what should we do?Well, I'm afraid the bad news is that we'll never get assessment right. Or a...

#Joe Kirby #Daisy Christodoulou #Amanda Spielman #The Mastery Pathway

How to get assessment wrong

May 20, 2015 | Category: assessment

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.Søren Kierkegaard With the freedom to replace National Curriculum...

#Michael Tidd #Robert Siegler

The Testing Effect is dead! Long live the Testing Effect!

May 20, 2015 | Category: Featured

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman Yesterday we were told that the much v...

#complexity #testing effect

The Variation Effect: How seating plans might be undermining learning

May 17, 2015 | Category: Featured

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.Marcus Aureliu...

#desirable difficulties #Benedict Carey #seating plans #variation effect

I fought the law and the law won

May 15, 2015 | Category: behaviour

There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.Samuel Beckett Yesterday I attended a Speed Awareness Course. I wasn't sure what to expect but was mainly relieved not to get...

#Michaela School #no excuses #responsibility

'No excuses' is no excuse

May 13, 2015 | Category: behaviour

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling I was a bit taken aback at the vigour and vitriol with which some people condemned Michaela School's approach to b...

#behaviour #Michaela School #Looked After Children

How do we know if a teacher's any good?

May 09, 2015 | Category: leadership

Obviously enough, not all teachers are equal. But how do we know which ones are any cop? Well, we just do, don't we? Everyone in a school community tends to know who's doing a decent job. But how do w...

#Graham Nuthall #Sutton Trust #Robert Coe #Eric Kalenze #Charlotte Danielson #Jack Marwood #Steve Higgins