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A piece I wrote for AQA reposted here. 13 August 2014 If research is ever going to have an impact in the classroom, teacher CPD needs a dramatic overhaul, says Carl Hendrick. The recent embrace of evidence-based practice in schools promises much – but how many of us are really able to tap…
Originally posted on Psych(ed): What do we mean by ‘meta-cognition’? Meta-cognition relates to the process of actively thinking about our own learning. It’s often referred to as ‘learning skills’ or ‘learning to learning’ and is centered on one’s ability to evaluate and monitor one’s own learning and to readjust as necessary through continual self-monitoring.…
A VERY slow news day: School appoints ‘head of research’
Originally posted on Evidence into Practice: I’ve written before regarding the prevalence of pseudoscientific ideas within education. Whenever I start to become a little optimistic that our profession can move out of the dark ages, something pops up to prove my hopes are premature. Just such a case emerged this week when I happened upon a…
I have written a chapter for a new book coming out this winter on Dialogic teaching and technology. The concomitant shift in terms of the traditional teacher within the new technological age then is one of ‘arbiter of knowledge’ to ‘facilitator of learning.’ This seismic shift in pedagogical dynamic has not divided teachers along the…
David James (@EducationFest) and I talking about Google Apps at BETT 2013.
The first in a series of short videos on writing I am working on with colleagues.
I have been thinking recently about how writing something effective is often about a structure and how I could get students to be more confident and assertive in their writing and decided to try something different. A good essay for me is often one that provides multiple, often conflicting perspectives and then offers some kind…
The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company: – William Wordsworth “That’s F’ing Gay as hell.” -Eric Cartman Earlier this year I was teaching ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by William Wordsworth and when I came…
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