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Handwriting matters

Feb 13, 2018 | Category: writing

Some years ago, during the interview for a role as Head of English in a secondary school, all the candidates were asked to speak about what we would prioritise if we were to get the job. I have no mem...

#cursive #handwriting #working memory #cognitive load #AB pen #Anti-ballistic pen #handwriting bias #tripod grip

Teaching to make children cleverer - Part 2

Jan 07, 2018 | Category: psychology

In my last post I reviewed those aspects on intelligence which are likely to be most malleable by teachers. Briefly, research into individual differences suggests that intelligence is fairly stable an...

#Kirschner #Sweller & Clark #working memory #long-term memory #schema

The problem with 'reading along'

Mar 25, 2017 | Category: reading

It has become an unwritten law of teaching that when reading aloud to students, the teacher must ensure students are reading along in their own copy of the text. This is, I contend, a bad idea. To und...

#working memory #Baddeley & Hitch #cognitive load #phonological loop

Does 'brain training' increase intelligence?

Nov 08, 2016 | Category: psychology

In my last post I outlined the differences between fluid and crystallised intelligence and argued that fluid intelligence (Gf) - the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previo...

#Daniel Willingham #working memory #fluid intelligence #brain training #Robert Sternberg

The Capital Letter Problem - Part 1

Aug 26, 2016 | Category: writing

I have almost never met a secondary age child who doesn't conceptually understand how to use a capital letter.* But, you'd never know. Students regularly hand in work liberally sprinkled with missing...

#writing #working memory #capital letters

Just semantics? Subtle but important misunderstandings about learning styles, modalities, and preferences

Feb 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

This is a guest blog from Yana Weinstein, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, one of the masterminds behind the wonderful Learning Scientists site.Scientists get quite attached...

#learning styles #working memory #long-term memory #Yana Weinstein

One more nail in the Learning Styles coffin...

Feb 19, 2016 | Category: myths

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth.Shakespeare, Macbeth Just when you think you've found a way to put...

#learning styles #working memory