JAMES MANNION, BESPOKE PROGRAMMES LEADER, UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UK; DIRECTOR, RETHINKING EDUCATION, UK; ASSOCIATE, ORACY CAMBRIDGE, UK
NEIL MERCER, EMERI...
LORNA SHIRES, DOCTORAL STUDENT AND PRINCIPAL LECTURER, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, UK
Research into expert teachers
Most research about expert teachers conside...
Verity Downing, Master of Education (MEd Open), Independent Academic, UK
The importance of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) cannot be underestimated. Th...
Sarah Seleznyov, Director, London South Teaching School Alliance, UK
England is unusual in its formal approach to learning in Year 1 – in many other countries,...
Alice Reedy, Teacher, Kaizen Primary School (Part of East London Research School), UK
There is a broad range of existing research dedicated to the subject of r...
Abdul Limbada, Teacher of Computing, RS and MFL, Eden Boys’ Leadership Academy, Manchester, UK
Richard Mayer’s (2018) book on how to become a successful learne...
Ben West, Achievement Lead and Teacher of English, The Garibaldi School, UK
Understanding the secondary context
Ofsted’s ‘Key Stage 3: The wasted years?’ repo...
RYAN J CRAZE, TEACHER OF HISTORY AND GIFTED AND MORE ABLE STUDENTS LEAD, HARLINGTON UPPER SCHOOL, UK
"I couldn’t remember what to write."
"Some people make ...
Robin Hardman, Politics teacher, Hampton School, UK
As any humanities or social science teacher will know, there is a common paradox underpinning many teenage...
One of the most frequent comments that students make after I teach them about memory (and about why some strategies are much more powerful than others) is ‘Why ...
A student misconception, for a teacher, is similar to what a fever is for a medical practitioner: it is an unequivocal indicator that something is amiss.
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Developments in our understanding of how three- to seven-year-olds learn mathematics have practical relevance for the mathematics we plan for in nursery, Recept...
If used effectively, peer assessment – a formative assessment strategy that encourages students to comment on the work of their peers – can improve students’ un...
It has long been recognised that feedback has a very valuable role to play in overall pupil progress and achievement (Hattie and Clark, 2018; Hattie, 1999). How...
Autism has traditionally been viewed as a condition predominantly affecting boys, and therefore autistic girls are not being sufficiently identified. Gould and ...
The cognitive revolution and the increased focus on evidence-based practice that has swept through the teaching profession in recent years has undoubtedly broug...
Hembree’s (1988) large and heavily cited meta-analysis of 562 studies about test anxiety found that test anxiety affects girls more than boys and can start at t...
Conflict of interest statement: This study was carried out by Sumdog, a company providing free and paid versions of their software to schools.
The study desi...
Daisy Christodoulou (2013) suggests that if we wish students to be able to solve real-world problems, we cannot teach them as if they already able to solve such...
In recent years, cognitive scientists have provided teachers with insights into ways of helping students to remember learning. Driven by the work of Willingham ...