Monthly Archives: June 2017

Last Thursday at the Festival of Education, Sam Sims and I presented new research from our forthcoming book, The Teacher Gap, on the small number of schools that appear to be knowingly running a… Continued here: http://ift.tt/2skD85z

Originally posted on Making Learners Extraordinary ™:
At the Extraordinary Learning Foundation™ we have developed a number of ways of making Thinkiness visible such as this one: And also this one: These express Thinkiness as a provocative verb construct. A doing. However,…

A warm Sunday morning in May. I’m up (too) early and heading off to my local football ground. Its cup-final day for the local youth leagues and I shall be officiating in a couple of games, first as an assistant … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Until I Know Better:
? At which stage in a topic do you stop modelling examples? I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest the answer is probably….too soon. I’m going to go further and suggest that the…

My shelf is groaning under the large pile of books I have recently bought to develop my subject knowledge prior to starting teacher training. I have a broad range of tomes awaiting my attention, encompassing pedagogy (Dylan William’s “Embedded formative … Continue reading →

Originally posted on 3-Star learning experiences:
Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen When accompanying text with images, a learner learns better. However, this only works when they are combined properly!  A good combination of words and images facilitates learning. This is…