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Learning is invisible - my slides from #LEF15

Mar 01, 2015 | Category: Featured

For all those who asked for my slides after my presentation of the London Festival of Education at the IOE, here you go: #LFE15 Learning is invisible from David Didau For all those who weren't ther...

#liminality #Robert Bjork #London Festival of Education

Landmark: a million thank yous

Feb 26, 2015 | Category: blogging

I began blogging in July 2011. In January 2012 I signed up with Google Analytics and have clocked up over 2 million pageviews since.[caption id="attachment_6937" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The s...

#Dylan Wiliam #Robert Bjork #Daisy Christodoulou

Should group work be imposed?

Feb 15, 2015 | Category: Featured

I recently posted some thoughts on what group work is and isn't good for. At no point did I say it was good for nothing (although predictably my opinion was caricatured as 'hating' group work) and I h...

#group work #Cristina Milos #Education Endowment Foundation #Robert Slavin

Why (the hell) should students work in groups?

Feb 11, 2015 | Category: Featured

In a recent TES article James Mannion and Neil Mercer make the following claim: In not using group work, students are denied the chance to develop skills that can not only help them perform better in...

#groupwork #James Mannion #Neil Mercer #Robert Slavin

What to do about literacy

Apr 15, 2015 | Category: literacy

Over the last couple of years I've visited over 100 schools and practically none of them have got literacy right. Now obviously I only get asked to talk to schools who feel they can improve - maybe th...

#literacy

What to do about workload?

Feb 07, 2015 | Category: leadership

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!Henry Ward Beecher To much fanfare in the press, the DfE has released the findings of its Workload Challenge survey. The idea is straightforward: to prevent te...

#workload

Should we support the College of Teaching?

Feb 02, 2015 | Category: Featured

I'd love to be able to provide my unequivocal support for the proposed College of Teaching. Obviously I'm fully in favour of professionalising teaching, but while I'm convinced of the good intentions...

#College of Teaching

The problem with lesson planning

Feb 01, 2015 | Category: leadership

Time brings all things to pass.Aeschylus Because the curriculum is divided up into units - terms and lessons - our thinking about how to teach is constrained. The school year is sectioned into six m...

#lessons

What's it like being a new teacher?

Jan 06, 2015 | Category: leadership

I've been very fortunate to spend time with a variety of new teachers over the past few years. Whether they're on PGCE placements, NQTs, RQTs or Teach First participants they are all, without exce...

#behaviour #teacher training

Some suggested New Year's resolutions

Jan 01, 2015 | Category: Featured

For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Having read this post from Jo Facer (@readingthebooks), I am inspired. Particularly by these...