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Getting culture right Part 1: Normative messages

Aug 02, 2017 | Category: behaviour

If you want to change anything within a school, culture is crucial. As Tom Bennett argues in Creating a Culture: How school leaders can optimise behaviour, culture is "the way we do things round here"...

#Tom Bennett #culture #herd immunity #normative messages #social norms #Solomon Asch

When is it worth arguing about bad ideas?

Dec 07, 2015 | Category: Featured

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.Paul Graham Trying to identify and inoculate yourself against bad ideas is always worthwhile, but trying to set others strait is a thankless, task. And maybe...

#Tom Bennett #Jo Boaler #Paul Graham

Is it just me or is Sugata Mitra an irresponsible charlatan?

Nov 23, 2015 | Category: myths

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.Ralph Waldo Emerson When I first saw physicist, Sugata Mitra speak about his Hole in the Wall exper...

#Sugata Mitra #Tom Bennett #ED Hirsch #Daisy Christodoulou #Kieran Egan #Donald Clark

researchED English & Literacy Conference

Jul 01, 2015 | Category: English

A few months ago I asked Tom Bennett if he'd be up for rubberstamping some sort of rEDx project (like TEDx but with brains) devoted to exploring the intersection between education research and English...

#English #Tom Bennett #researchED #Ray Land

So, what does 'gifted' mean anyway?

Jun 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

As you may be aware, non-selective secondary schools are failing the 'most able'. How do we know? Because a brand new Ofsted report tells us so. The report's key findings include such revelations as t...

#Ofsted #Tom Bennett #Geoff Barton #Tom Sherrington #G&T

Thinking like a writer

Jun 04, 2013 | Category: English

How do we get better at writing? By writing.The advice I always give to students to improve their writing is to write. Often. Everyday if possible. This might be a private diary entry, an Amazon revie...

#Phil Beadle #Tom Bennett #practice #Rober Bjork

Grit vs Flow - what's better for learning?

Mar 04, 2013 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_2963" align="alignleft" width="300"] At least it wasn't Brain Gym![/caption] Bugger! Having just put up a new classroom display exhorting the benefits of 'flow' and using the i...

#Tom Bennett #Malcolm Gladwell #Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi #Alex Quigley #Cal Newport

Awards season

Nov 19, 2011 | Category: Featured

Being as I'm still very new to this blogging game (was it only July I made my first post?) I had no idea there were awards for it, let alone awards for educational blogging. Who knew?Well, apparently...

#Kristian Still #Dr Mark Evans #edublog awards #Laura Sutherland #Mark Anderson #Tom Bennett