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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...
What do teachers think differentiation is?
Apr 24, 2017 |
Category: research
In Why Knowledge Matters, ED Hirsch Jr sets out the case against differentiated instruction, saying, "the attempt to individualize the content of the language arts curriculum has been a quixotic idea...
Why feedback fails
Jan 10, 2017 |
Category: assessment
Feedback is one of the few things in education that pretty much every agrees is important and worthwhile. The need for feedback is obvious: if you were expected to learn how to reverse park a car whil...
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...
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