Weekly inspiration for all teachers
“If we create a culture where every teacher believes they need to improve, not because they are good enough, but because they can be even better, there is no limit to what we can achieve” – Dylan Wiliam
Teaching and Learning blog of the week:
Academic Year 2020-2021
Sunday 25 April – Louis Everett – Incremental improvement so that all students are cognitively active all of the time
Sunday 18 April – Christina McGhie – Disruption-free lessons vs effortful engagement
Sunday 28 March – Ben Crockett – What has remote learning taught us about questioning?
Sunday 21 March – Pete Foster – Refining Retrieval – What does the evidence say about the testing effect?
Sunday 14 March – Harry Fletcher-Wood – Planning lessons using cognitive load theory
Sunday 7 March – Harry Fletcher-Wood – What is Responsive Teaching?
No BOTW due to focus on remote learning
Sunday 13 December – Ben Newmark – Managing Means of Participation
Sunday 6 December – Tara McVey – The Hidden Power of Habits
Sunday 29 November – Rachel Ball – Retrieval Practice – My Next Steps
Sunday 22nd November – Alex Quigley – Academic Vocabulary and Scheme Building
Sunday 15th November – Jack Tavassoly-Marsh – Attention is the Gateway to Cognition
Sunday 8th November – Andy Tharby – Improving Writing Through Improving Reading
Sunday 1st November – Nimish Lad – High Expectations
Sunday 18th October – Mark Enser – Closing the Gap: Educational Disadvantage in the Classroom
Sunday 11th October – Pritesh Raichura: Quality Teacher Talk – Clear Teacher Explanations
Sunday 4th October – Tom Sherrington – Teaching for understanding: Schema-building and generative learning
Sunday 27th September – Niki Kaiser – Meaningful Memory
Sunday 20th September – Tom Needham – Strategies to Increase Pace
Sunday 13 September – Jack Tavassoly-Marsh – Gaining whole class attention
Sunday 6 September – Tom Sherrington – The #1 problem/weakness in teaching and how to address it
Monday 31 August – Durrington Research School Team – From Distance Teaching to Recovery Teaching
Academic Year 2019-2020
Sunday 1 March – Shaun Allison – Effective Questioning
Sunday 23 February – Adam Boxer – Working with a bottom set year 11: how I do it
Sunday 9 February – Adam Boxer – Ratio
Sunday 2 February – Kat Howard- The dying art: knowledge, specialism and professional development
Sunday 26 January – Steve Adcock – 7 Rules of Rosenshine
Sunday 19 January – Andy Tharby – Five ways to rejuvenate behaviour management in your classroom
Sunday 12 January – Simon Baddeley – How I use a visualiser in my classroom
Sunday 5 January – Ruth Walker – Why do you bang on about researchED all the time Ruth?
Sunday 8 December – Michael Chiles – Typicality in G007
Sunday 1 December – Kate Jones – Retrieval Practice – The myths versus the reality
Sunday 24 November – Adam Boxer – Challenge Beyond Bloom’s – What makes one question hard and another one easy?
Sunday 17 November – Pritesh Raichura – Clear Teacher Explanations I: examples and non-examples
Sunday 10 November – Ruth Walker – Curriculum and Cognitive Science
Sunday 3 November – Sarah Larsen – Cognitive Load Theory – How has it changed my teaching
Sunday 20 October – Andy Tharby – Using Cognitive Load Theory to Improve Slideshow Presentations
Sunday 13 October – Jon Gustafson – Habits to Reduce Cognitive Load Theory for Students and Teachers
Sunday 6 October – Zoe Enser – Supporting Working Memory in the English Classroom
Sunday 29 September – Dominic Shibli and Rachel West – Cognitive Load Theory and its application in the classroom
Sunday 22 September – Mark Enser – How to support pupils with poor working memory
Sunday 15 September – Ben Newmark – Low level disruption?
Sunday 8 September – David Rogers – Behaviour routines
Sunday 1 September – Bill Wilkinson – Starting with a new class
Academic Year 2018-2019
Sunday 14 July – Mark Enser – Why we can’t have a fun lesson today
Sunday 7 July – Adam Boxer – Thinking Curriculum – The One Stop Shop
Sunday 30 June – Miss Sayers – What makes a bad knowledge organiser?
Sunday 23 June – Ben Newmark – How to teach using a booklet and a visualiser
Sunday 16 June – Jon Hutchinson – How to get the best out of knowledge organisers?
Sunday 9 June – Explaining through dual coding – Chris Runeckles
Sunday 2 June – Ruth Walker – E. Coli and Quality First Teaching
Sunday 19 May – Oliver Caviglioli – An Introduction to Dual Coding Theory
Sunday 12 May – Andy Tharby – The dos and don’ts of collaborative learning
Sunday 5 May – Clare Sealy – Memory not memories – teaching for long term learning
Sunday 28 April – Damian Benney – Knowledge retrieval and spacing – applying research in the classroom
Sunday 21 April – David Didau – Three animated films about learning
Sunday 31 March – Adam Boxer – Tips and tricks for better behaviour
Sunday 24 March – Lee Donaghy – Brighten Lines – classroom management technique
Sunday 17 March – Tom Needham – Explicit Vocabulary Teaching – What and How?
Sunday 10 March – Tom Sherrington – Great Teaching. The Power of Expectations
Sunday 3 March – Andrew Smith – Noise!
Sunday 24 February – Robin Launder – Getting behaviour right
Sunday 9 February – Ben Crockett – The importance of questioning
Sunday 2 February – Paul Moss – Modelling: the 4th dimension
Sunday 27 January – Sarah Barker – Going further than the ‘I do, we do, you do’ modelling approach – teaching nothing new’
Sunday 20 January – Deborah Hawkins –Why I Ditched PowerPoint
Sunday 13 January – Adam Boxer – Simplifying Cognitive Load Theory
Sunday 6 January – Jemma Sherwood – To talk or not to talk? That is the question!
Sunday 25 November – Craig Barton – Cognitive Load Theory
Sunday 18 November – Tom Needham – Applying Cognitive Load Theory and the Worked Example Effect
Sunday 11 November – Dawn Cox – A focus on knowledge: vocabulary rich teaching.
Sunday 4 November – Shaun Allison – What’s wrong with ‘pitch, pace and progression’?
Sunday 28 October – Tom Sherrington – Lessons that misfire? Good intentions with bad theory?
Sunday 14 October – Hearts & Minds Teaching – How can sampling improve the frequency of feedback and inform teaching more regularly?
Sunday 7 October – Mark Enser – Making a fuss of feedback – Whole Class Feedback
Sunday 30 September – Kate Herbert-Smith – How can video technology be used to inform teacher development?
Sunday 23 September – Joe Kirby – How breaking habits creates a great school ethos
Sunday 16 September – Andy Tharby – Using knowledge organisers to improve retrieval practice
Sunday 9 September – Joe Kirby – A 5 year revision plan – KOs and self-quizzing
Sunday 2 September – Tom Sherrington – Behaviour Management: A Bill Rogers Top 10
Academic Year 2017-2018
Monday 16 July – Jennifer Findley – End of year reflection questions for teachers
Monday 9 July – Shaun Allison – Providing models – modelling in the classroom – how, why and what can go wrong?
Monday 2 July – Rufus William – Dual Coding and Working Memory – linked to adding new material in small steps – Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction
Monday 25 June – Mark Enser – Putting Rosenshine’s ‘Principles of Instruction’ into practice in the classroom
Monday 18 June – Tom Sherrington – Exploring Barak Rosenshine’s seminal Principles of Instruction: Why it is THE must-read for all teachers.
Monday 11 June – Tom Sherrington – What is a knowledge-rich curriculum, and what does it look like in principle and practice?
Monday 4 June – Mark Enser – Knowledge in the classroom
Monday 21 May – Ben Newmark – Hands down! Why we shouldn’t always let students ask questions when they want to!
Monday 14 May – Carl Hendrick – How should students revise?
Monday 7 May – Rebecca Foster and Claire Hill – Practical approaches to bringing research-informed ideas to the classroom
Monday 30 April – Rebecca Foster – Valuable feedback that supports teaching wellbeing
Monday 23 April – Andy Tharby – Using cognitive load theory to improve presentations
Monday 16 April – Tom Sherrington – Evidence-informed ideas that every teacher should know about
Monday 26 March – Pritesh Raichura – Retrieval cues – do your questions help or hinder?
Monday 19 March – Robbie Coleman (EEF) – Whole Class Reading
Monday 12 March – Katie Jones – Knowledge Retrieval Practice Grids
Monday 5 March – Julie Watson – Metacognition assisting revision
Monday 26 February – Damian Benney – Differentiation, inclusion and classroom culture
Monday 26 February – Jack Tavassoly-Marsh – Using a visualiser in the classroom
Monday 19 February – Sallie Stanton – The art of questioning
Monday 12 February – Tom Sherrington – The five forms of feedback that I give to teachers most often
Monday 5 February – Dave Grimmett – Changing the status quo in our classrooms
Monday 29 January – Jamie Thom – Teaching to the top
Monday 22 January – Alex Quigley – Top 10 revision strategies
Monday 15 January – Jack Tavassoly-Marsh – Rocks of routine
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