I am a confirmed, incurable Bardolator. My first brush with Shakespeare was a striking promenade performance of Macbeth at the Arcola Theatre when I was thirtee...
Since the introduction of the new National Curriculum in 2014, our school’s aim has been to design a curriculum that meets the needs of the students at our scho...
All experts constantly reflect upon what they are doing and how they are progressing (Stobart, 2014). If our students are to be expert learners, they must be ab...
Retrieval practice in the form of multiple-choice testing has been shown to be successful as a learning strategy, including in the primary classroom (McDaniel e...
Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has recently become ‘The Next Big Thing’ in teaching. Dylan Wiliam tweeted on 26 January 2017 that he had ‘come to the conclusion Sw...
Amanda Spielman (Spielman, 2017) has said ‘at the very heart of education sits the vast accumulated wealth of human knowledge and what we choose to impart to th...
In one of our Year 10 lessons this week, Salim called out ‘Does it have to look like that?’ His exaggeratedly aghast manner suggested several things all at once...
In 2014, I followed an interdisciplinary arts project called ‘Songlines’, delivered over two terms by The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. It aimed to:
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Interest is an elusive state, one which everyone experiences at some point but one which is often difficult to define. A wide range of terms are used by some a...
Nothing polarises a staffroom discussion more than technology. The moment interactive whiteboards, virtual learning environments or mobile devices are brought...
‘Smart is not something you are, smart is something you get’ (Wiliam, 2013a).
What is formative assessment?
There is more than 40 years’ research evidence to ...
For four years I have taught in a wide variety of schools and I have always been confused about how we use the word 'validity'. I knew the word had something to...
Assessment for learning (AfL) strategies, closely associated with formative assessment, aim to enable students to independently assess their own learning, mov...
When the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Oxford University Department of Education released the report A Marked Improvement (Elliott et al., 20...
Jude Hunton considers research on learning for examinations and the kinds of effective strategies that can be gleaned from research on testing and memory.
Te...
Dominic Shibli discusses Kirschner and van Merriënboer's paper debunking three popular 'myths' in educational research.
I have been teaching for 20 years but...
Simon Bayliss considers the impact of reading Jung-Sook Lee's research on the factors that make a difference to students' learning, behaviour and engagement w...
Samantha Jones, Advanced Practitioner: Teacher Development and Scholarship, Bedford College, discusses the considerations needed to achieve effective cooperat...
