The timeless struggles of coaxing pupils to get started on their revision (or homework). This year, as every year, for the past twenty-five years as a teacher, I have been encouraging pupils to get started. This year, I have a …
Let’s take the first question, that broad and complex question – “Can we teach leadership?” Let’s attempt an answer, borrowing from John Kotter’s familiar framework, and ask three narrower, less complex questions. Arguably yes. Though not to suggest the broad …
My involvement with “Coaching young people,” was incidental. It arose from a conversation with a trusted parent and led to a Coaching engagement with their son. Their confidence in my Coaching leading to a number of referrals and here we are. …
My involvement with “Coaching young people,” was incidental. It arose from a conversation with a trusted parent and led to a Coaching engagement with their son. Their confidence in my Coaching leading to a number of referrals and here we are. …
The study investigates the effectiveness of retrieval-based concept mapping as a learning activity for high school students, (14-18 year olds). That this learning activity promotes the construction of coherent mental representations of to-be-learned materials. Students received concept mapping training in …
My involvement with “Coaching young people,” was incidental. It arose from a conversation with a trusted parent and led to a Coaching engagement with their son. Their confidence in my Coaching leading to a number of referrals and here we …
I am forever re-thinking about the interplay of cognitive architecture, working memory and curriculum/instructional design, even more so when preparing schemes of learning at half-term. However, more recently, rather than thinking about what new information needs to be taught, I …
Imagine a secret game of tag, but instead of tapping someone on the shoulder, you “zap” them by making them hold or interact with a secret “weapon” like a pen, book, or even just a wink! That’s kind of like …
