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The trouble with troublesome knowledge

Jun 16, 2018 | Category: Featured

A recent blog post made some interesting assertions about knowledge. In doing so it presented a series of opinions as facts. That is not a criticism - we all have a tendency to do this. But in order t...

#Daniel Willingham #Bryan Caplan #Douglas Detterman #Jerome Bruner #Lindsay Johns

Can thinking hard be incidental? A conversation with Daniel Willingham

Nov 27, 2016 | Category: Featured

For some time now, Rob Coe has been suggesting that a good proxy for students learning in lessons is that they "have to think hard". This seemed eminently sensible and I've written about this formulat...

#Daniel Willingham #Rob Coe

Intelligent Accountability

Oct 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law....

#Daniel Willingham #accountability #Roger Scruton

Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 1: Explain

Jun 26, 2013 | Category: Featured

"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process."EB White There are some definite pit falls to avoid in explaining things to kids. The biggest c...

#Daniel Willingham #David Thomas #Kris Boulton #Mr Men #The Simpsons #Wittgenstein #zooming in and out

What is meta-cognition and can we teach it?

Jun 01, 2013 | Category: Featured

Meta-cognition is one of those terms that gets bandied about in educational circles as if we all know exactly what it is. And we do: it's...er...thinking about thinking, isn't it?Ever since the Educat...

#Daniel Willingham #cognitive psychology #Education Endowment Foundation #meta-cognition

The problem with progress Part 3: Designing lessons for learning

Feb 16, 2013 | Category: Featured

Over my last couple of posts I've suggested that you can't see learning in lessons, you can only infer it from students' performance. This means that as a teacher, when you get students to respond to...

#Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #hinge questions #progress #Robert Bjork #concept maps