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Top 20 principles from psychology for teaching & learning

May 09, 2015 | Category: psychology

The Coalition for Psychology for Schools and Education haves released a new report detailing what, in their opinion, are the most important and useful psychological principles teachers ought to be awa...

Robert Coe on #WrongBook

May 13, 2015 | Category: Featured

Robert Coe, Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University burst into my consciousness two years ago with his vigorous critique of the lack of evidence underpinning lesson o...

#Robert Coe #What If Everything You Knew About Teaching Was Wrong?

Michaela School: Route One Schooling

May 12, 2015 | Category: Featured

I learned two very important principles from my visit to Michaela: You can do whatever you want as long as you hold your nerve and accept the consequences. You can always go a lot further than you...

#Katherine Birbalsingh #Michaela School

Scaffolding: what we can learn from the metaphor

May 11, 2015 | Category: literacy

Pretty much everyone agrees scaffolding students' work is a 'good thing'. Whenever they get stuck we leap in with our trusty writing frames and help them get going. A good writing frame can teach an u...

#scaffolding

Do all good ideas need to be researched?

May 10, 2015 | Category: research

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.Arthur Stanley Eddington After my presentation on Slow...

#Slow Writing #researchED

Why do people vote Conservative?

May 08, 2015 | Category: Featured

Reason coldly of your grievances, or else depart.Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet All my life I've been a left-leaning liberal kind of guy. I believe in social justice, equality and protecting those le...

#Jonathan Haidt #Conservative #General Election 2015

The myth of progress

May 07, 2015 | Category: Featured

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.C....

#progress #Jean Piaget #natural selection #Richard Dawkins #Robert Siegler

Endorsements - what are they worth?

May 05, 2015 | Category: Featured

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it “recognition”!William James You might not have noticed (I've been the...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Wilingham #Robert Bjork #What If Everything You Knew About Teaching Was Wrong?

What should written feedback look like?

May 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.Arthur Schopenhauer In response to my last post, Cristina Milos pointed out that I use the term 'feedback' without providing any further...

#marking #Joe Kirby #proofreading #RAG123 #written feedback

Two stars and a bloody wish!

May 03, 2015 | Category: leadership

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.Jean de La Bruyère We are held hostage by our superstitious belief in the mystical power of marking to...

#marking #two stars and a wish #www ebi