Archive

Active filters: Tag: fun Clear all

Should teachers do what children want?

May 19, 2017 | Category: behaviour

Every weekday morning, my daughters both moan about having to get up for school. They moan about their teachers and they moan about homework. Given free rein, they would spend all day every day watchi...

#fun #groupwork #engagement

A heck of a lot of posters

Sep 20, 2015 | Category: Featured

Is it just me, or do secondary school children make a heck of a lot of posters? Now, I've got nothing against posters per se, but why do we seem to have decided that poster making is the best way to d...

#fun

"The kids absolutely love it!" The phrase that launched a thousand gimmicks

Feb 05, 2014 | Category: learning

I attended a TeachMeet recently where a number of the presenters argued that their teaching strategy of choice was worth trying out because, "The kids absolutely love it!" This seems to me to be a who...

#fun

"The kids absolutely love it!" The phrase that launched a thousand gimmicks

Feb 05, 2014 | Category: learning

#fun

The problem with fun

Aug 22, 2013 | Category: learning

Getting students engaged so that they can be taught something seems much less effective than getting them engaged by teaching them something that engages them.Dylan Wiliam Could fun be the enemy of le...

#John Hattie #Daniel Willingham #fun #memory

Deliberating about practice

Apr 22, 2012 | Category: learning

Should learning be fun?A few years ago I remember saying that was all learning should be. If you weren't enjoying it, why on earth would you do it? But now I'm not so sure.One of the most frequently u...

#John Hattie #Michael Jordan #10000 hours #deliberate practice #fun #Malcolm Gladwell

Archive

Should teachers do what children want?

A heck of a lot of posters

"The kids absolutely love it!" The phrase that launched a thousand gimmicks

"The kids absolutely love it!" The phrase that launched a thousand gimmicks

The problem with fun

Deliberating about practice

Categories

Tags