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Should we seek to balance teacher-led and student-led lesson activities?

Oct 29, 2022 | Category: Featured

For as long as I've been writing about education, many commentators have argued that teaching should seek to balance teacher-led and student-led activities. Although this is often presented as self-ev...

#group work #student-led #teacher-led

What's the best (and easiest) way to teach?

Sep 25, 2018 | Category: Featured

I thought I'd said all I ever wanted to say about group work until, responding to a tweet from an education professor exhorting all teachers to add group work to their teaching repertoires, I unwisely...

#group work #direct instruction #Robert Slavin #PISA #collaborative learning #McKinsey #Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction #whole class instruction

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

The ultimate teaching technique

Feb 14, 2012 | Category: learning

UPDATE: I no longer agree with any of the following. It remains on my blog as a warning against hubris. June, 2016 Maybe it's just me, but I seem to be encountering an awful lot of people railing agai...

#group work #Phil Beadle #home & expert groups

Is it better to be told, or to discover a fact?

Jan 22, 2012 | Category: learning

I've read a lot of blogosphere twaddle about why students don't learn effectively in groups and the only effective method for teaching is direct instruction. My view is there needs to balance in all t...

#group work #Hattie #direct instruction #spelling

Does group work work?

Jul 18, 2011 | Category: learning

Have just been reading 59 Seconds by Professor Richard Wiseman (@RichardWiseman) and am rather dismayed to note that contrary to popular belief, but according to scientific research, groups are less c...

#creativity #group work