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The myth of progress

May 07, 2015 | Category: Featured

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.C....

#progress #Jean Piaget #natural selection #Richard Dawkins #Robert Siegler

Where lesson observations go wrong

Jul 12, 2013 | Category: Featured

UPDATE: Since writing this post in July 2013 a lot has happened. Ofsted has stopped grading individual lessons and many schools have recognised the futility and harm caused by lesson grading. Here is...

#lesson observations #Sir Michael Wilshaw #outstanding lessons #progress

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

The problem with progress Part 3: Designing lessons for learning

Feb 16, 2013 | Category: Featured

Over my last couple of posts I've suggested that you can't see learning in lessons, you can only infer it from students' performance. This means that as a teacher, when you get students to respond to...

#Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #hinge questions #progress #Robert Bjork #concept maps

The problem with progress Part 2: Designing a curriculum for learning

Feb 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

Can progress be both rapid and sustained? We start out with the aim of making the important measurable and end up making only the measurable important.Dylan Wiliam [caption id="attachment_6068" align=...

#Will Thalheimer #Graham Nuthall #Maurice Holt #progress #Robert Bjork #interleaving #Slow Education #Spaced learning

The problem with progress Part 1: learning vs performance

Feb 12, 2013 | Category: Featured

What's more important? Learning or progress?[caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignleft" width="150"] Take that progress! We want learning[/caption]We've known since the publication of Ofsted's Mov...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Kev Bartle #liminality #progress #Robert Bjork