A key challenge facing neuroscience and education is how to translate evidence from the laboratory into the classroom (Dommett et al., 2013). From the mid-19th ...
According to the Oxford dictionary, myths can be defined as ‘misrepresentations of the truth’. This article aims to give an overview of some aspects that come...
There have been recent calls for more interaction between learning scientists and teachers. However, this requires mutual access and sustained time together, ...
The Education Endowment Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational attainment. It funds rigorous ...
The notion of perceptual learning styles – that is, the idea that learners prefer to receive information either visually, auditorily or kinaesthetically – has...
The growing body of research in the evolving new fields of ‘The Learning Sciences’ and ‘Mind, Brain, and Education’ provides great opportunities to improve lear...
It is often difficult to find research on a group of children that exactly fits the profile or diagnosis of a child that you are working with; there are many ...
In this article, we discuss a specialist coaching approach to overcoming a particularly pertinent issue for teachers, that of supporting children with speech, l...
If we accept that knowledge of the brain is of value to teachers, it follows that we need to develop our understanding of how teachers mediate this type of info...
It was at the British Educational Research Association’s (BERA) Annual Conference 2017 that I heard a delegate make the witty remark, ‘teaching’s not rocket sci...
