Back from a 3 week twitter break on a family holiday, I’m excited to share some quality new takeaways this…
Continue ReadingEffect Sizes, Robust or Bogus? Reflections from my discussions with Hattie and Simpson
This post is the story of one passionate educator trying to honestly work out whether effect sizes are worth the…
Continue ReadingERRR #019. Yael Perry on Adolescent Anxiety and Depression
Despite the debilitating impacts that anxiety and depression can have on young people, research shows that, in the last year,…
Continue ReadingTOT052: A year of Teacher Ollie’s Takeaways!
I’m pretty chuffed this week because we’ve managed to make it to a year (52 weeks) worth of Teacher Ollie’s…
Continue Reading‘Flippin Heck!’ 21 things I’ve learnt from Mr Barton’s two discussions with Dylan Wiliam
Towards the end of 2016 I was explaining to a friend that I was launching The Education Research Reading Room podcast because I…
Continue ReadingTOT051: A knowledge rich curriculum vs. a rich curriculum, How to observe a lesson, + more Twitter takeaways
The topic of a ‘knowledge rich’ curriculum has been getting a fair bit of air time in the education twittersphere…
Continue Reading29 things I took from Craig Barton’s book, ‘How I Wish I’d Taught Maths’.
I thoroughly enjoyed Craig Barton’s book, ‘How I wish I’d Taught Maths‘. To my mind, it’s an absolute must-read for…
Continue ReadingTOT050: The Cult of the Guru, an assembly to challenge students on ‘what is learning’, + more Twitter Takeaways
This week, and as a follow up to my recent interviews with Adrian Simpson (critiquing the meta-analysis) and John Hattie…
Continue ReadingTOT049: Re-framing how we think of a challenging class, changing the default, + more Twitter Takeaways
The longest TOT in a while! T1 was a really interesting piece. I know that at times it’s easy to…
Continue ReadingERRR #018. John Hattie defending the meta-analysis
The ERRR podcast can also be listened to on Spotify, apple podcasts, and all other podcasting apps. Edit: You can…
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