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What does improve children's writing?

Dec 01, 2017 | Category: writing

In my last post I discussed evidence that suggests grammar teaching does not lead to an improvement in children's writing. Although it seems implausible that grammar teaching would not be positively c...

#grammar #Slow Writing #Greg Ashman

Evidence and disadvantage: How useful is the EEF Toolkit?

Feb 26, 2017 | Category: research

Although everyone's education is important, the education of disadvantaged students is, arguably, of much greater importance than that of students from more advantaged backgrounds. The more privileged...

#learning styles #John Tomsett #Education Endowment Foundation #Greg Ashman #ED Hirsch Jr #Sir Kevan Collins

The power of 'best bets'

Jan 15, 2017 | Category: research

The other day I read Greg Ashman's post Why Education is like smoking which talked about the way teachers often generalise from anecdotes in the same way that when smokers are confronted with statisti...

#Greg Ashman #Gary Davis #Wolfgang Pauli

PISA 2015: some tentative thoughts about successful teaching

Dec 06, 2016 | Category: Featured

Despite all the eminently sensible caveats offered by Sam Freedman, PISA provides a fascinating lens through which to view the world of education. The most interesting of the PISA documents I've had a...

#Greg Ashman #enquiry-based instruction #PISA #teacher directed instruction

Context isn't king

Nov 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

It's become quite fashionable recently to say that there's no best way to teach because what works depends on the context in which you teach. This is a considerable improvement on asserting that [inse...

#John Hattie #Greg Ashman #John Donlosky #Lucy Crehan

Are teachers cursed with knowledge?

Sep 05, 2016 | Category: Featured

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to lack that knowledge. Chip Heath, Made to Stick How much do teachers need to know? In my last post I...

#inverted U hypothesis #Carl Weiman #Greg Ashman #curse of knowledge

Why I like 'tick n flick'

Dec 16, 2015 | Category: Featured

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. William of Ockham Tick n flick - the practice of flicking through students' exercise books and ticking to indicate that they have been read (o...

#John Hattie #marking #workload #Greg Ashman

Rubrics warp teaching and assessment

Dec 11, 2015 | Category: writing

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.Machiavelli In a recent blog post, children's author, Michael Rosen has suggested how teachers should t...

#Greg Ashman #Michael Rosen #comparative judgement

What is 'transfer' and is it important?

Sep 17, 2015 | Category: learning

Very kindly, Greg Ashman posted his thoughts on #WrongBook on his site yesterday - if you haven't seen his 'review' you can find it here. I really like both the style and the substance of Greg's piece...

#Robert Bjork #transfer #Greg Ashman