Today, in the Q/A with colleagues from VNET I was asked two excellent questions. The first on “photographic memories” and the other on addressing the challenge of a bloated curriculum and too little time. I will get to the second, …
Co-post on SecEd I hope you enjoy this summary post on retrieval practice and test-enhanced learning – as the fog begins to clear. Research into the factors that make the use of retrieval practice effective continues apace. From directing attention …
This afternoon I was listening to Gayle Allen (@gallentc) interview Dan Willingham on the Curious Minds at Word podcast. The podcast has a fantastic back catalogue and this episode is essential listening for any teacher, student or PD learning lead. …
Bookmarks get revisited at half-term. Most get deleted. Occasionally there is a gem in there. First the original – with a few corrections. Then the education adaptation. I share this here, I there are plenty of wonderful mentors, middle leaders, …
Last year, I had one period per week with four Year 8 pupils to support their English lessons. I did not have any prior experience of teaching Year 8 English at the school. So what did we do? I reviewed …
From micro to macro I am still thinking deeply about our curriculum. Having previously thought a great deal about micro curriculum planning, this thinking is more macro thinking. I have thought hard and consulted on the principles and purpose of …
Kornell and Bjork (2008) famously presented learners with impressionist landscape artwork in blocked or interleaved formats and then tested their ability to identify the artist who had painted novel example paintings. There were two key findings: first, interleaving was superior …
Teaching Holes to Year 7 pupils we quiz every lesson. We pre-test chapter target vocabulary via matched diagnostic and target cues (word-definitions). We then post-test (spacing within the lesson). As we progress through the text, we continue with matched quizzes …
