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Teaching for independence: thinking, memory & mastery

Jul 02, 2014 | Category: learning

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to thin...

#Daniel Wilingham #independent learning #Robert Coe #Daniel Kahneman #Kirschner #Sweller & Clark

Does it do what it's supposed to? Assessing the assessment

Apr 06, 2014 | Category: assessment

In response to a request for constructive criticism of the English assessment model I helped design, Michael Tidd got in touch to query whether it met his 7 questions you should ask about any new ‘pos...

#Robert Coe #APP #Michael Tidd #National Curriculum

Squaring the circle: can learning be easy and hard?

May 11, 2014 | Category: learning

Regular readers will know I've been ploughing a furrow on this question for quite a while now. Last June I synthesised my thinking in this post: Deliberately difficult – why it’s better to make learni...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Robert Bjork #Kris Boulton #Robert Coe #Annie Murphy Paul #Daniel Kahneman

Why AfL might be wrong, and what to do about it

Mar 12, 2014 | Category: myths

Some cows are so sacred that any criticism of them is fraught with the risk of bumping up against entrenched cognitive bias. We are fantastically bad at recognizing that our beliefs are often not base...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Robert Coe

What if we stopped making the same mistakes?

Feb 11, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. Henry Ford Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Fake Einstein quote How many of...

#Ofsted #Alex Quigley #Robert Coe #Lesson Study

Don't trust your gut: a little bit more on the problem with grading lessons

Jan 13, 2014 | Category: learning

This evening, there will be debate on the role lesson observation in England's schools with such educational luminaries as Professor Robert Coe, David Weston (the man behind the Teacher Development Tr...

#Ofsted #Rober Bjork #lesson observation #Robert Coe #Tristan Hunt

Still grading lessons? A triumph of experience over hope

Feb 08, 2014 | Category: Featured

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon To paraphrase Rob Coe's seminal research, yesterday's National Teacher Enquiry Network (NTEN) conference at KEGS in Chelmsford was a tri...

#Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #lesson observation #Robert Coe #Liam Collins #NTEN

Questions that matter: method vs practice

Feb 04, 2014 | Category: Featured

We talk a lot these days about pedagogy, but what do we actually mean? Obviously, we know what the dictionary definition is: the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or t...

#Robert Coe #Laura McInerney #Barry Smith

How can we make classroom observation more effective?

Jan 14, 2014 | Category: learning

If the belief that it's possible for untrained observers to pitch up in lessons and grade their effectiveness is comparable to a belief in witchcraft, (and Professor Robert Coe's research confirms tha...

#Doug Lemov #lesson observation #Robert Coe

Has lesson observation become the new Brain Gym?

Nov 16, 2013 | Category: training

I've thought a lot about lesson observation over the past couple of years and have come to the conclusion that it is broken. What is most worrying is that it is almost universally accepted as the best...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #Joe Kirby #Chris Moyes #lesson observation #Mary Myatt #Matt O'Leary #Robert Coe