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Learning is liminal

Feb 10, 2016 | Category: learning

I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. Tennyson, Ulysses I offered my de...

#Graham Nuthall #liminality #Robert Siegler #mimicry #Victor Turner

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

Why AfL might be wrong, and what to do about it

Mar 12, 2014 | Category: myths

Some cows are so sacred that any criticism of them is fraught with the risk of bumping up against entrenched cognitive bias. We are fantastically bad at recognizing that our beliefs are often not base...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Robert Coe

Focusing on performance is the enemy of the growth mindset

Mar 02, 2014 | Category: learning

Over the past year or so I've been following a line of thinking which has gone something like this:Learning and performance are not the same thing. Pupils' performance in lessons does not correspond w...

#Carol Dweck #Graham Nuthall #Growth mindset #Barry Hymer

Still grading lessons? A triumph of experience over hope

Feb 08, 2014 | Category: Featured

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon To paraphrase Rob Coe's seminal research, yesterday's National Teacher Enquiry Network (NTEN) conference at KEGS in Chelmsford was a tri...

#Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #lesson observation #Robert Coe #Liam Collins #NTEN

Has lesson observation become the new Brain Gym?

Nov 16, 2013 | Category: training

I've thought a lot about lesson observation over the past couple of years and have come to the conclusion that it is broken. What is most worrying is that it is almost universally accepted as the best...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #Joe Kirby #Chris Moyes #lesson observation #Mary Myatt #Matt O'Leary #Robert Coe

Why can't we tell a good teacher through lesson observations?

Aug 23, 2013 | Category: leadership

No teacher is so good - or so bad - that he or she cannot improve. Dylan Wiliam The English education system is obsessed with ascertaining the quality of teachers. And what with the great and the good...

#lesson observations #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall

Motivation: when the going gets tough, the tough get going

Aug 26, 2013 | Category: learning

If ever you get embroiled in a discussion on Learning Styles you may well be confronted with the chestnut of motivation.Learning styles, it seems to me, are all about motivation and management, and no...

#motivation #Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #memory

Deliberately difficult - why it's better to make learning harder

Jun 10, 2013 | Category: Featured

The most fundamental goals of education are long-term goals. As teachers and educators, we want targeted knowledge and skills to be acquired in a way that makes them durable and flexible. More specifi...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Kev Bartle #progress #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #Ebbinghaus #New Theory of Disuse #Retrieval induced forgetting

Planning Lessons - lessons I’ve learned from lessons I've taught

Jun 09, 2013 | Category: Featured

This is a summary and a drawing together of several earlier posts. I consider it a refinement of my thinking and something which is painstakingly (and grandiosely) groping its way towards a total phil...

#Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #Pareto #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #DIRT