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…
Continue ReadingTOT048: What makes a teachable moment? Integrating reading comprehension and content, + more Twitter Takeaways
I like organising info, but I’ve often found it hard to work out how to structure my resources (and thinking)…
Continue ReadingThinking about poverty and thinking.
Let’s play spot the difference. Here are two very similar questions. Your car is having some trouble and requires $150…
Continue ReadingTOT047: The research on tracking, Making the most of MC Qs, + more Twitter Takeaways
Five high quality takeaways for you this week. Takeaway 1 is an inspired post by Michael Pershan on streaming. This…
Continue ReadingA test wrapper with a difference: Showing students the importance of retrieval practice
A short post to show a powerful graph! In giving feedback to my students following their recent physics test I…
Continue ReadingTOT046: Retrieval practice and self-regulated learning, a fantastic reading list, + more Twitter takeaways
Takeaway 1 this week is a Twitter thread that I posted drawing some interesting connections between retrieval practice and scaffolding…
Continue ReadingTOT045: Classroom management, teacher education, metacognition, + more Twitter Takeaways
This week, @NoraOswald provides some excellent classroom management advice in takeaway 1. I enjoyed reading through this short piece and…
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